We've been able to do polls with 20 poll options for quite a while, so I think we are due (if not overdue) for another favorite episode tabulation. Here's a link to the old tabulation that was based on people's top 10 lists, and here's one to the poll that grew out of it.
Some time after the ground hog either sees or doesn't see his shadow on February 2, 2008, I'm going to count the number of times that each episode is one of the first 20 that appears on each of these lists. (I think that's enough time to get enough lists to make the tabulation interesting.) The top twenty in that category will then go into a poll in the "Polls" section, and the poll will run indefinitely.
If there are ties that are necessary to break, they'll be broken by the percentage of times each episode appears in the top 19, excepting cases where people say their lists aren't in any particular order. If there are still ties, then they'll be broken by the percentage of times each episode is in listed in the top 18, excepting cases where people say their lists aren't in any particular order. And so on, and so on, and so on. Let me know if you have any questions. It's conceivable that I might have to think about the answers, but I will answer them, at the very latest, two weeks before Groundhog Day 2008.
Feel free to list more than twenty episodes or less than twenty, as the spirit moves you. But for the purposes of my tabulation, any episode listed 21st or later will not count. If you want to do your own tabulation with these same lists, but with a different way of counting points, you are perfectly welcome to do so; in fact, that would probably be pretty interesting. So far I've been the only one nuts enough to want to do a tabulation like this on the board, though. (Matt Cregg did a few large-scale tabulations for all visitors to his old Fifth Dimension site, of which this message board is a spinoff. One of those tabulations eventually got over 3000 ballots. Of course he had the aid of software, I'm pretty sure.)
My Top 20:
1. Kick The Can
2. Walking Distance
3. Time Enough At Last
4. The Dummy
5. The Changing Of The Guard
6. The After Hours
7. A Stop At Willoughby
8. Nick Of Time
9. Five Characters In Search Of An Exit
10. One for The Angels
Not in order yet:
Long Distance Call
Living Doll
The Howling Man
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
Eye Of The Beholder
The Night Of The Meek
Miniature
A Passage For Trumpet
Third From The Sun
What You Need
I will probably make some changes before the deadline...
Some time after the ground hog either sees or doesn't see his shadow on February 2, 2008, I'm going to count the number of times that each episode is one of the first 20 that appears on each of these lists. (I think that's enough time to get enough lists to make the tabulation interesting.) The top twenty in that category will then go into a poll in the "Polls" section, and the poll will run indefinitely.
If there are ties that are necessary to break, they'll be broken by the percentage of times each episode appears in the top 19, excepting cases where people say their lists aren't in any particular order. If there are still ties, then they'll be broken by the percentage of times each episode is in listed in the top 18, excepting cases where people say their lists aren't in any particular order. And so on, and so on, and so on. Let me know if you have any questions. It's conceivable that I might have to think about the answers, but I will answer them, at the very latest, two weeks before Groundhog Day 2008.
Feel free to list more than twenty episodes or less than twenty, as the spirit moves you. But for the purposes of my tabulation, any episode listed 21st or later will not count. If you want to do your own tabulation with these same lists, but with a different way of counting points, you are perfectly welcome to do so; in fact, that would probably be pretty interesting. So far I've been the only one nuts enough to want to do a tabulation like this on the board, though. (Matt Cregg did a few large-scale tabulations for all visitors to his old Fifth Dimension site, of which this message board is a spinoff. One of those tabulations eventually got over 3000 ballots. Of course he had the aid of software, I'm pretty sure.)
My Top 20:
1. Kick The Can
2. Walking Distance
3. Time Enough At Last
4. The Dummy
5. The Changing Of The Guard
6. The After Hours
7. A Stop At Willoughby
8. Nick Of Time
9. Five Characters In Search Of An Exit
10. One for The Angels
Not in order yet:
Long Distance Call
Living Doll
The Howling Man
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
Eye Of The Beholder
The Night Of The Meek
Miniature
A Passage For Trumpet
Third From The Sun
What You Need
I will probably make some changes before the deadline...
