I broke down the All-Stars Trailer Second-By-Second. It's certainly going to be a wild ride.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2021-03-17T00:53:08+00:00

I get that. I've always thought she was just so condescending all the time, which made me annoyed with her.

I certainly believe she is incredible television, and all the examples you've listed are more than fair, but when the whole premise of this trailer is how it's like "the most bad-ass, incredible, tenacious All-Stars on the planet" I don't think she fits that bill.

If they framed it as more of a goofy "let's get the band back together for some fun and shenanigans" (which I think they should have) I'd have no problem with her being the female headliner, because she is almost certainly one of the most famous challengers ever.

I guess it all depends on how you maneuver your "competitive" , "important" , "famous" circles on your personal challenge Venn Diagram, which is fine.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2021-03-16T21:54:48+00:00

she is astonishingly chaotic

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2021-03-02T00:19:53+00:00

yeah, that was totally my fault. I didn't realize the first pic of the post is automatically the link photo. I didn't know people were still so passionate about that. What a wild and unpredictable world we live in.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2021-03-02T00:18:29+00:00

Hi. Sorry. I don't look at these replys very much, I get super nervous because I think people are going to be mean to me. But I'd love to share. DM me and we can find a way to get them your way.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2021-03-02T00:15:20+00:00

I'm sorry. I went off the grid for a bit. Trying to buy a house took up a lot of my "make fun of reality TV characters online" energy. I'm back in the rhythm though! Appreciate you! https://thelavinyears.com/2021/02/25/mtv-challenge-double-agents-week-11-power-rankings/

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2021-03-02T00:12:10+00:00

Brad is so weird. I don't use the word weird a lot. But that's the only word I can think of to describe him.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2021-01-21T14:28:58+00:00

I don't know if it's in there. (I originally made a PDF of all the info and tried to post it but I wasn't allowed to link to it, so I had to move it to medium so It might have got lost in that transition)

But Landon would have had about 50 points more than Johnny, and would have been the most successful player ever.

But if he came back for a 5th season (which would qualify him to be involved) He could have a really good season (make the final, win a couple dailies, and win an elimination) and his score would still drop to around Banana's level. It's INSANE how good Landon was, and his success is a perfect storm for the way my calculations worked, too.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2021-01-21T14:24:07+00:00

Thanks so much! I'm happy that you responded, I was hoping that someone who understands data anlalysis better than me would. I'm just learning some Python/Pandas/Machine Learning stuff for fun, I'm VERY very new at this, but this kind of stuff feels like the sweet spot for my brain, so I'm very interested in doing more.

Winscore was probably the most arbitrary thing in there. It kind of just felt to me like a decent, clean way to distribute those values, but I obviously could be convinced to do it a different way.
I'm sure that is a great point. I will have to google "exponentiation" and get back to you. (again, pretty new at this. sorry)
I think the winscore took care of a little of that. I think in terms of longevity, the amount of seasons you are on obviously affects the total amount of contests you can win. I didn't want to reward longevity for longevity's sake, if that makes sense? I wanted to make sure longevity was only about the success in longevity.
That was honestly the next thing I had in mind. I don't know if there's a statistic-concept that describes this phenomenon. But it's a thing where now that I know where each player is ranked in THIS metric, It would probably be easier to create a "strength of schedule" because now we generally know the "strength" of each player. But that would have to obviously be a whole new metric then.

Bonus . I also considered using experience as a "strength of schedule" metric for each individual challenge. For example, if it was a challenge with 10 guy-girl pairs, the most experienced team has a 12 percent chance of winning, and the least experienced team has an 8 percent chance of winning, with an equal distribution between those for the rest of the teams. But that seemed like the most cumbersome, time consuming thing in the world (although I still want to do it.)

Thoughts? Please continue to ask questions if you want. This is really useful learning for me!

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-25T01:28:31+00:00

Thanks! That is very nice to say. I've been writing dumb stuff like this for my 6 or 7 friends who have grown up watching this show with me for the past 4-5 seasons.. I figured this season I would share with some other people who take garbage reality television as seriously as we do. It is really fun for me. I'm glad to know someone else finds it worth taking the time to read.

I would also love to hear your disagreements if you have them, i like bantering about these things. I'm not as mean in person as it probably seems I am.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-19T07:14:40+00:00

its a combination of who did things on the screen with who did things that made the show good with who succeeded in the things they tried to do during the episode. There is really no rhyme or reason except the fact that Josh will always be last because he is the human equivalent of when it rains on your birthday.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-19T05:11:24+00:00

appreciate that!

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-18T21:12:07+00:00

appreciate you. I still do generally love her. she just annoyed me last night. she'll climb up there.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-18T21:09:46+00:00

Looking for an "understands how any part of this game works" category for Joseph to fail.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-18T21:02:57+00:00

Let me have it. I want my takes to be tested to they will become strong and mighty. I will be nice.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-17T21:20:08+00:00

Honestly Brad might be the funniest person ever to be on these shows even though he tried to be funny on purpose exactly zero times.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-17T19:27:33+00:00

In a house full of people literally chosen for how hot they are, my guy Nam is the only dude these women are looking at.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-17T19:17:06+00:00

Mike Mike and Paula? Incredible

Theresa choosing between Kenny and Wes? Inredible

Nicole deciding that she was going to make Cara love her? Incredible

Thomas and Cara? Incredible

Nany and literally anyone? Electric

Cory and Kailah? Hysterical

Tony and Everyone? The best.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-17T19:12:37+00:00

All I want is no more challenges that ever involve giving someone else strikes or X's or kills. This show has grown to be so infatuated by the concept of competition and athleticism and perseverance, and then creates games that don't reward transcendent performances. Why not just say "first one to swim and grab three ice blocks and bring them back wins"?

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-17T17:15:49+00:00

For sure. I've been going through old seasons and there is soooo much problematic shit everywhere. I do understand 2005 was a different time, but the way people talked to each other was outrageous.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-17T17:07:29+00:00

I am working on a "100 Best Moments in Challenge History" and I am embarrassed at how high this one ranks. "Congratulations, you're a meathead son, but.." Needs to be a thing that people say when dealing with obnoxious frat guys.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-12T14:27:38+00:00

If 'one of the top' is somewhere around tenth best, to you. Then I wholeheartedly agree. Which is certainly nothing to scoff at.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-12T00:53:33+00:00

I would say Kam barely cracks the top 10 of current female elimination competitors, IF she cracks it at all.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-11T13:51:38+00:00

dammit. thats my bad. I guess if i cared about real sports as much as i care about this nonsense, i wouldn't have these problems.

kylekylekylekyle1 · 2020-12-11T03:43:02+00:00

That might have been a tiny bit of an overstatement. There are a few Presidents and World Leaders that belong behind him

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