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[fluffy]

Pipes are still available? I thought Yahoo discontinued that.

And of course it's not a drug reference, it's a blowjob reference.

[Lunkhead]

Yes, Yahoo Pipes still exists for now. Also, I simplified my pipe so you only need to provide the full artist name. If anybody has any ideas for Song Fight! related content to try to turn into RSS feeds, let me know and I'll use them as excuses for further experiments.

Meanwhile, back to graphs and charts. I was thinking of maybe adding pie charts for fights showing the shares of votes...

[Mostess]

I whipped up a chart showing number of votes across the horizontal axis, and number of songs that received that number of votes on the vertical axis. I did not include songs from fights where votes were not recorded. Surprisingly, the most common numbers of votes received were 1, 2, 3, and then 0. I expected 0 to be higher ranked than that.

http://sfjukebox.org/songs/charts/votesDist

What happened in June, 2008? The average votes per song experienced a sudden sea change!

[Mostess]

There actually was a quite noticeable uptick in the average number of votes per song at one point in time (July 2nd, 2008), which is when the "All We Could See At The Window" fight ended. With a little poking around on the boards I was able to determine that was in fact when Spud released the new multi-voting functionality. Very interesting.

Answered, then asked. Remind myself to read, then post.

[Mostess]

http://sfjukebox.org/artists?sort=fight ... ding=false

Top 10 most entries under a single name:
106 Ross Durand
104 WreckdoM
103 Steve Durand
102 Melvin
101 Paco del Stinko
101 The Weakest Suit
93 King Arthur
84 Johnny Cashpoint
79 Octothorpe
62 Hostess Mostess

...and at number 11:

60 Caravan Ray

which will be 61 when my entry for this week is counted.
Your Top 10 days are numbered HoMo

Oh Mr. Ray, you are on!

[Lunkhead]

Ooh, things are heating up. Here's an update since I started this thread:

107 Ross Durand
105 Steve Durand
104 WreckdoM
102 Melvin
102 Paco del Stinko
101 The Weakest Suit
93 King Arthur
84 Johnny Cashpoint
79 Octothorpe
62 Hostess Mostess
61 Caravan Ray
58 Klownhole
54 Wages
53 Berkeley Social Scene

The Durand bros. have secured the top spots, Paco continues his ascent to third place, Caravan Ray creeps toward the top 10 but Hostess Mostess has come back and may make a bid to keep ahead of Ray, while Berkeley Social Scene is the only other significant climber in the second 10. Tune in next time!

[king_arthur]

King Arthur intends to reach 100 and retire, and then reappear under some other name.

Charles (KA)

(I guess "Smollatitaknica" will be blocked as a user name after the next spam cleanup... shame, that)

[Caravan Ray]

http://sfjukebox.org/artists?sort=fight ... ding=false

Top 10 most entries under a single name:
106 Ross Durand
104 WreckdoM
103 Steve Durand
102 Melvin
101 Paco del Stinko
101 The Weakest Suit
93 King Arthur
84 Johnny Cashpoint
79 Octothorpe
62 Hostess Mostess

...and at number 11:

60 Caravan Ray

which will be 61 when my entry for this week is counted.
Your Top 10 days are numbered HoMo

Oh Mr. Ray, you are on!

It's on baby

And the harder we go at it - the Berkley Social Scene will NEVER make the top 10


Ha ha ha ha!

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EDIT: I have actually written a song for this week - but If I get around to recording - it will be entered under a pseudonym. It is one of "those" songs that a respected professional does not need to be associated with. So you are safe this week HoMo.

[Caravan Ray]

Ooh, things are heating up. Here's an update since I started this thread:

107 Ross Durand
105 Steve Durand
104 WreckdoM
102 Melvin
102 Paco del Stinko
101 The Weakest Suit
93 King Arthur
84 Johnny Cashpoint
79 Octothorpe
62 Hostess Mostess
61 Caravan Ray
58 Klownhole
54 Wages
53 Berkeley Social Scene

The Durand bros. have secured the top spots, Paco continues his ascent to third place, Caravan Ray creeps toward the top 10 but Hostess Mostess has come back and may make a bid to keep ahead of Ray, while Berkeley Social Scene is the only other significant climber in the second 10. Tune in next time!

Gotta get a message to Phil Wages. That boy can churn them out

[king_arthur]

If this means we will be getting lots more Hostess Mostess songs in the near future, this is a Very Good Thing!

[Caravan Ray]

If this means we will be getting lots more Hostess Mostess songs in the near future, this is a Very Good Thing!

How is the "King Arthur Award*" going?

Who holds that ?

Is it still you - or have you won something, which means I overtake you?
Or has Weakest Suit or someone over taken us both?


*"King Arthur Award*" - most Songfight! entries without a win (not counting the "Prayer for Pancakes" fight)

[king_arthur]

I lost the title when I won the "Hello My Old Heart" fight. Stupid friend flooding (my high school class was arranging our 40-year reunion and I mentioned on the class reunion page that I had written a song about high school reunions, and it got me just enough votes to beat out whoever should have won).

Fortunately, it was a decent song and did pretty well in the reviews, as well, so there wasn't a lot of complaining... even though it was also a Live Fight title.

Charles (KA)

[Lunkhead]

The current "King Arthur Award" holder, I think, is Wages.

http://sfjukebox.org/artists?sort=fight ... &maxWins=0

Here's the top 10 artists with the most entries under the same name with no wins:

54 Wages
49 Flvxxvm Florvm
45 Rone Rivendale
42 The Idiot Kings
38 noah mclaughlin
36 MC Eric B
35 Andre was here at midnight
34 Doscientos
34 Jon Eric
33 Eddiebangs

The still active folks on that list are Flxxvm Florvm, noah mclaughlin, and joneric. They've all got a bit of a ways to the top.

[Caravan Ray]

The current "King Arthur Award" holder, I think, is Wages.

http://sfjukebox.org/artists?sort=fight ... &maxWins=0

Here's the top 10 artists with the most entries under the same name with no wins:

54 Wages
49 Flvxxvm Florvm
45 Rone Rivendale
42 The Idiot Kings
38 noah mclaughlin
36 MC Eric B
35 Andre was here at midnight
34 Doscientos
34 Jon Eric
33 Eddiebangs

The still active folks on that list are Flxxvm Florvm, noah mclaughlin, and joneric. They've all got a bit of a ways to the top.

That means the current holder is me with 61 entries with no win*

(*You will recall "Prayer for Pancakes" does not count because that was the one-hour skirmish done for Spud and JBs TV appearance, after which it was deemed all entrants were the "winners")

[king_arthur]

Yeah, but I don't think it was ever officially determined that it didn't count. I decided I'd better stop grumbling about this long ago. Grumble, grumble, grumble...

Charles (KA)

[Mostess]

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EDIT: I have actually written a song for this week - but If I get around to recording - it will be entered under a pseudonym. It is one of "those" songs that a respected professional does not need to be associated with. So you are safe this week HoMo.

Your professional standards may earn you respect, but they deny you greatness. Quantity will defeat quality!

[Mostess]

(*You will recall "Prayer for Pancakes" does not count because that was the one-hour skirmish done for Spud and JBs TV appearance, after which it was deemed all entrants were the "winners")

It was a 14-way tie with 2 votes each and I bet I know who cast all those votes. Perhaps our moderators could open that fight to a real vote someday. Maybe in the style of the "Zero to Phantom" now vs. then re-fight. This anomaly must be corrected.

[Caravan Ray]

Quantity will defeat quality!

That's what I tell the ladies

[Lunkhead]

For anybody who's curious, there are currently 111 artists who entered 1 time and won 1 time:

http://sfjukebox.org/artists?maxFights=1&minWins=1

[Caravan Ray]

Top 10 update. The Stink has overtaken Durand Durand at the top of the ladder.

And BSS has snuck in the top 10 ahead of both CR and HoMo


1 Paco del Stinko 120
2 Ross Durand 119
3 Steve Durand 108
4 WreckdoM 105
5 Melvin 102
6 The Weakest Suit 101
7 King Arthur 100
8 Johnny Cashpoint 85
9 Octothorpe 79
10 Berkeley Social Scene 69
11 Hostess Mostess 66
12 Caravan Ray 64

[Caravan Ray]

For anybody who's curious, there are currently 111 artists who entered 1 time and won 1 time:

http://sfjukebox.org/artists?maxFights=1&minWins=1

Horatio Nelson!

[Lunkhead]

Ha. I didn't want to bring too much attention to that for fear of calling our competitors to arms. It's interesting to see how things have changed though. I doubt anybody will ever catch up with the top 3, barring them taking long sabbaticals from Song Fight! (not unprecedented, as Paco, while currently #1, did take an entire year off). Also, it's getting harder and harder for BSS to climb the charts. 10 songs to get up to 9th place, oof. Then from j$ to # KA is another huge leap. Time to start entering 2x per fight.