2009: Final Overall Standings

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02-06-2009 12:14 PM
mae

2009: Final Overall Standings

Final Overall Standings
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"Difference" is the percentage of the difference in points from the preceding book

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Title
|
Year
|
Final Score
|
Difference

The Stand
|
1978
|
8.425725232
|
+2.28%

The Drawing of the Three
|
1987
|
8.233333333
|
+0.55%

It
|
1986
|
8.187809036
|
+2.38%

The Dark Tower
|
2004
|
7.993040293
|
+3.38%

The Waste Lands
|
1991
|
7.722916667
|
+0.59%

The Talisman
|
1984
|
7.677326108
|
+2.97%

The Long Walk
|
1979
|
7.449095200
|
+0.79%

The Green Mile
|
1996
|
7.390527065
|
+0.78%

The Shining
|
1977
|
7.333188875
|
+1.69%

Different Seasons
|
1982
|
7.209375000
|
n/a

Wolves of the Calla
|
2003
|
7.132619777
|
+0.07%

Misery
|
1987
|
7.127272727
|
+1.25%

Duma Key
|
2008
|
7.038438966
|
+0.41%

Pet Sematary
|
1983
|
7.009291520
|
+0.59%

Salem's Lot
|
1975
|
6.967983368
|
+0.38%

Wizard and Glass
|
1997
|
6.941841840
|
+0.10%

Black House
|
2001
|
6.935223956
|
+1.14%

Everything's Eventual
|
2002
|
6.856288857
|
+1.82%

The Gunslinger
|
1982
|
6.731312472
|
+1.01%

Insomnia
|
1994
|
6.663507989
|
+0.43%

The Eyes of the Dragon
|
1984
|
6.634808852
|
+1.80%

Skeleton Crew
|
1985
|
6.515151515
|
+0.37%

Needful Things
|
1991
|
6.491250000
|
+0.02%

On Writing
|
2000
|
6.489795917
|
+0.75%

Hearts in Atlantis
|
1999
|
6.441304942
|
+1.49%

Song of Susannah
|
2004
|
6.345466155
|
+0.41%

Bag of Bones
|
1998
|
6.319254659
|
+0.29%

Desperation
|
1996
|
6.301241236
|
+1.76%

Four Past Midnight
|
1990
|
6.190476190
|
+0.36%

Just After Sunset
|
2008
|
6.168300652
|
n/a

Nightmares & Dreamscapes
|
1993
|
3.970588235
|
+1.02%

Firestarter
|
1980
|
3.930232558
|
+1.79%

Night Shift
|
1978
|
3.860000000
|
+0.26%

The Dead Zone
|
1979
|
3.850000000
|
+3.38%

Cell
|
2006
|
3.720000000
|
+0.44%

Dolores Claiborne
|
1992
|
3.703703703
|
+0.02%

Lisey's Story
|
2006
|
3.703125000
|
+0.14%

Blaze
|
2007
|
3.698113208
|
+0.19%

Carrie
|
1974
|
3.690909090
|
+2.23%

Cujo
|
1981
|
3.608695652
|
+1.03%

The Regulators
|
1996
|
3.571428571
|
+2.82%

Thinner
|
1984
|
3.470588235
|
+0.05%

Christine
|
1983
|
3.468750000
|
+0.13%

Rose Madder
|
1995
|
3.464285714
|
+0.65%

Storm of the Century
|
1999
|
3.441860465
|
+1.03%

The Running Man
|
1982
|
3.406250000
|
+0.56%

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
|
1999
|
3.387096774
|
+0.46%

The Dark Half
|
1989
|
3.371428571
|
+0.79%

Cycle of the Werewolf
|
1983
|
3.344827582
|
+0.34%

Dreamcatcher
|
2001
|
3.333333333
|
+1.18%

Gerald's Game
|
1992
|
3.294117647
|
+0.53%

The Colorado Kid
|
2005
|
3.276595744
|
+1.47%

The Tommyknockers
|
1987
|
3.228571428
|
+0.44%

Faithful
|
2004
|
3.214285714
|
+0.44%

Roadwork
|
1981
|
3.200000000
|
+0.09%

From a Buick 8
|
2002
|
3.196969697
|
+1.69%

Secret Windows
|
2000
|
3.142857142
|
+5.25%

Rage
|
1977
|
2.977777777
|
+10.45%

Nightmares in the Sky
|
1988
|
2.666666667
|
+1.56%

Danse Macabre
|
1981
|
2.625000000
|
n/a

[/table]
02-06-2009 12:18 PM
jayson

The Gunlsinger, #19. Interesting. :orely:
02-06-2009 12:19 PM
mae

Couldn't have been anything different :panic:
02-06-2009 03:40 PM
Matt

This is really fucking cool...I love data :dance:
02-06-2009 09:32 PM
BROWNINGS CHILDE

I dont see any data for books 1-10 in the table?
02-07-2009 12:59 AM
Jean

Duma Key # 13! The bear's favorite number, the bear's favorite book!

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k2...n/bear4bis.gif
02-07-2009 08:47 AM
Heather19

Quote:

Originally Posted by BROWNING'S CHILDE

I dont see any data for books 1-10 in the table?

I think he's waiting to put in the final data from the last round.

Looks good Pablo!
I too am glad to see that Duma Key did fairly well. Kinda wish it had made it into the top 10 though.
02-07-2009 09:14 AM
Matt

I think that may have been due to the fact that a lot of people had not read it yet.
02-07-2009 11:27 AM
Jean

Maybe better luck next year!

At least bears hope so.
02-08-2009 09:28 AM
RUBE

Ok, I thought round three was going to be a head-to-head bracket-style elimination round. Problem is that ten does not work in that format unless you give byes. It would have to be four, eight, sixteen or so on. So what format is the last round going to take?
02-08-2009 09:53 AM
Aaron

It isnt an elimination round, just a series of face-offs. Basically each book will go head-to-head with every other book individually in a poll. Say you have The Stand, as an example...it will be in nine polls. The Stand vs. The Drawing of the Three, The Stand vs. IT, and so on. The winner of each poll will get 0.1 points added to its score. This way every book has an equal chance because it is having to face every competitor.

And the polls will be based specifically on which book you would rather re-read. Starts tomorrow, BTW.
02-08-2009 02:02 PM
RUBE

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aaron

It isnt an elimination round, just a series of face-offs. Basically each book will go head-to-head with every other book individually in a poll. Say you have The Stand, as an example...it will be in nine polls. The Stand vs. The Drawing of the Three, The Stand vs. IT, and so on. The winner of each poll will get 0.1 points added to its score. This way every book has an equal chance because it is having to face every competitor.

And the polls will be based specifically on which book you would rather re-read. Starts tomorrow, BTW.

Ok, so it is a round robin. That is cool.
02-09-2009 05:56 AM
Jon

Da' Stand YES!!!

*coughs* *exits*
02-09-2009 06:09 AM
alinda

Quote:

Originally Posted by R_of_G

The Gunlsinger, #19. Interesting. :orely:

Quote:

Originally Posted by pablo

Couldn't have been anything different :panic:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jean

Duma Key # 13! The bear's favorite number, the bear's favorite book!

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k2...n/bear4bis.gif

Quote:

Originally Posted by Heather19

Quote:

Originally Posted by BROWNING'S CHILDE

I dont see any data for books 1-10 in the table?

I think he's waiting to put in the final data from the last round.

Looks good Pablo!
I too am glad to see that Duma Key did fairly well. Kinda wish it had made it into the top 10 though.

The first thing I noticed was The Gunslinger was # 19...:wtf:

I am looking forward to seeing the votes for the top 10 :excited:

Duma Key @ 13 is weird too, I too wish it had made the to the top ten.:D
02-09-2009 07:30 AM
mae

I just started reading Duma Key last night, by the way :)

Speaking of positions, though, all these standings are not really new, they were culled from the two "overview" threads with the tables. Books from 11 to 30 are the same as the table in the overview thread for Round 2, and from 31 to 60 are displaced slightly due to the fact that Four Past Midnight is actually three spots below non-Round 2 books, thus making Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Firestarter, and Night Shift slide down one spot.
02-09-2009 02:41 PM
Heather19

Quote:

Originally Posted by pablo

I just started reading Duma Key last night, by the way :)

And how are you liking it so far?
02-09-2009 02:45 PM
mae

Well, like I said I just started last night, and managed to read only the portion I previously read as the short story "Memory". But right off the bat it has a feel of a really good vintage-King novel. And given it finished in 13th place out of 60 King books, that seems about right :)
02-09-2009 03:01 PM
Heather19

:thumbsup: I'm sure you'll enjoy it, but let us know when you finish.
02-09-2009 05:18 PM
BROWNINGS CHILDE

Pablo, Ummm The Stand? It? Do you still have these to read???????/
02-09-2009 07:33 PM
mae

Quote:

Originally Posted by BROWNING'S CHILDE

Pablo, Ummm The Stand? It? Do you still have these to read???????/

Indeed. I have a system ;)
02-09-2009 09:00 PM
BROWNINGS CHILDE

Ok, Ive made my point. I'll leave you alone about it now. Haha
03-06-2009 12:21 PM
mae

The table has been updated and we now have our final 1 through 60 standings. Enjoy :)
03-06-2009 12:31 PM
jayson

Great work on this whole thing Pablo and Aaron!!! :clap:
03-18-2009 01:09 AM
ManOfWesternesse

Great project - well done guys.
Extremely glad that The Stand won out on this one - well deserved recognition of such a great Book.
Surprise for me:- Insomnia only made #20 - I rated it to finish a lot higher.
03-18-2009 04:29 AM
Jean

Quote:

Originally Posted by ManOfWesternesse

Great project - well done guys.
Extremely glad that The Stand won out on this one - well deserved recognition of such a great Book.

hear, hear!

Quote:

Surprise for me:- Insomnia only made #20 - I rated it to finish a lot higher.

Insomnia! Look where Desperation is.

::grinds false teeth::
03-18-2009 04:55 AM
turtlex

Well done, everyone involved.

Very impressive.
03-18-2009 04:59 AM
Dave!

I'm amazed that the Dark Half finished below Lisey's Story! :panic:

but yes, great job! And #1 is my personal #1, so yay!
03-18-2009 01:07 PM
Matt

This is really beautiful and an amazing amount of work went into it, thanks you guys.

Are we going to get a "total votes" number for the entire thing, I would love to know that.
03-18-2009 01:33 PM
mae

Do you mean total unique votes, Matt? In that case I'm sure Aaron can whip that up without too much trouble.

We also still have to hold the polls for our various appended categories, so while the main prize has been awarded, so to speak, there's still plenty of hardware to go around :)

And I'm really happy everyone appreciates what Aaron and I came up with. I can't wait to do it all over again, this time with Under the Dome :)
03-18-2009 01:35 PM
Daghain

Wow, we were thisclose to having all the DT books in the top 25. :lol:
03-18-2009 01:51 PM
Matt

Quote:

Do you mean total unique votes, Matt? In that case I'm sure Aaron can whip that up without too much trouble.

That's exactly it, total unique per book so we could have an overall number of how many votes we received to come to this conclusion.

It's like a survey looking much better when you find out it was 10,000 people instead of 10 :lol:
03-24-2009 06:37 AM
Cutter

Sweet, great work guys!

I think it turned out pretty much like I expected. Sure a lot of the books at the bottom have not been read, but a lot have not been read for a reason, like Danse Macabre, which doesn't get great reviews.

I'm surprised Drawing of the Three is the top DT book though, I always thought everyone loved Wizard & Glass. *shrug*

some ones to laugh at Roadwork: no one likes this book and I don't know why, personally I loved it and found it to be a very realistic situation that just causes a man to go over the edge. And Wolves of the Calla: I see more people complain how they didn't like this book and that's when the Dark Tower started going down, etc... But then others just love the book (myself included) and have no idea what the others are talking about. lol It's great to see it made a strong showing.
03-24-2009 07:19 AM
mae

Quote:

Originally Posted by gguthrie

I'm surprised Drawing of the Three is the top DT book though, I always thought everyone loved Wizard & Glass. *shrug*

I've expressed my dislike of DT4 (well, that's maybe a tad too strong - I've enjoyed everything I read by King, it's just that one I enjoyed less than most) numerous times, and so I'm not at all surprised to see where it ended up. I'm also unsurprised to see DT2 just miss out on the top spot. It's prefect.
03-24-2009 11:24 AM
sarajean

Quote:

Originally Posted by pablo

Quote:

Originally Posted by gguthrie

I'm surprised Drawing of the Three is the top DT book though, I always thought everyone loved Wizard & Glass. *shrug*

I've expressed my dislike of DT4 (well, that's maybe a tad too strong - I've enjoyed everything I read by King, it's just that one I enjoyed less than most) numerous times, and so I'm not at all surprised to see where it ended up. I'm also unsurprised to see DT2 just miss out on the top spot. It's prefect.

as have i. i really don't get why so many love it so much. i'm really glad it didn't get the top spot.
03-24-2009 11:46 AM
Jean

Quote:

Originally Posted by sarajean

Quote:

Originally Posted by pablo

Quote:

Originally Posted by gguthrie

I'm surprised Drawing of the Three is the top DT book though, I always thought everyone loved Wizard & Glass. *shrug*

I've expressed my dislike of DT4 (well, that's maybe a tad too strong - I've enjoyed everything I read by King, it's just that one I enjoyed less than most) numerous times, and so I'm not at all surprised to see where it ended up. I'm also unsurprised to see DT2 just miss out on the top spot. It's prefect.

as have i. i really don't get why so many love it so much. i'm really glad it didn't get the top spot.

ditto here... see the W&G thread in the Baronies, where bears expressed their intense disappointment
04-04-2009 08:42 PM
Spencer

Oh, for just another 2.29%. :lol: