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{{Infobox question set
| Name         = "stanford housewrite"
| AltNames     = 
| Season       = 2015–2016
| School       = [[Stanford]]
| HeadEd       = [[Stephen Liu]]
| Difficulty   = [[Nats-minus]]
| First        = February 2, 2016
| Announcement = https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17929
| Packets      = https://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/1766/
}}
'''"stanford housewrite"''' was a [[nats-minus]] housewrite by [[Stanford]] for the 2016 season. The official name of the set is in lowercase with quotation marks.

The set introduced the concept of "[[Nationals-minus]]" difficulty, which it described as "noticeably harder than tournaments such as ACF Regionals and [[Penn Bowl]], but not as hard as ACF Nationals or last year’s [[George Oppen]]."<ref>[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=308720#p308720 Announcement: "stanford housewrite"] by [[Galadedrid Damodred]] » Sun Oct 04, 2015 3:15 pm</ref>

==Evaluation of difficulty==
Because many teams played both "stanford housewrite" and [[2016 ACF Nationals]] two months later with the exact same lineups, the concept of "nats-minus" difficulty can be evaluated by directly comparing metrics:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="border: 0;"
| style="border: 0; background: #fff;" |
! colspan="2" | "stanford housewrite"
! colspan="2" | 2016 ACF Nationals
|-
!Team
!PPB
!DTG*
!PPB
!DTG*
|-
|Berkeley A
|19.55
|1.81
|17.02
|1.30
|-
|Chicago A
|21.32
|0.86
|20.29
|0.50
|-
|Chicago B
|17.46
|1.69
|14.23
|2.24
|-
|Maryland
|20.40
|1.20
|18.48
|1.11
|-
|Michigan
|21.77
|1.00
|20.22
|1.05
|-
|Minnesota
|19.05
|1.70
|16.05
|2.10
|-
|Oxford
|18.14
|2.00
|15.03
|1.70
|}
<small>* DTG = dead tossups per game involving this team, incorporating both their skill and that of their total opponents</small>

Every team had a higher [[PPB]] at Stanford Housewrite than ACF Nationals, and those who had common lineups had a higher PPB still at ACF Regionals, suggesting that the "between Regionals and Nationals" difficulty was achieved in the bonus questions.

Four of the seven teams experienced ''more'' dead tossups at Stanford Housewrite than at Nationals, suggesting that tossups were less well-calibrated. A lack of buzzpoint data at both tournaments and the non-use of powers at Nationals precludes exploring issues such as how deep tossups went on average before being answered.
{{-}}

==Mirrors==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Region
!Host
!Date
!TD
!Champion
!Runner-up
!High scorer
!Stats
|-
|[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17930 West Coast]
|[[Stanford]]
|2/27/2016
|[[Austin Brownlow]]
|"Carson et al."<br/>([[Rob Carson]], [[Andrew Hart]], [[Jerry Vinokurov]], [[Jay Bhasin]])
|[[Berkeley]] A
|[[Rob Carson]]
|[https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3300/stats/round_robin_%2B_final/standings/ Round Robin + Final]
|-
|[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18188 Mid-Atlantic]
|[[Maryland]]
|2/27/2016
|[[Naveed Chowdhury]]
|[[Chicago]] A
|[[Maryland]]
|[[Jordan Brownstein]]
|[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3491/stats/round_robin_+_final/ Round Robin + Final]
|-
|[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18211 Canada]
|[[Waterloo]]
|2/27/2016
|[[Isaac Thiessen]]
|"Joe Su, Jay of Huma-n's Desiring"<br/>([[Joe Su]], [[Jay Misuk]], [[Huma Zafar]])
|"Party Crashers"
|[[Jay Misuk]]
|
|-
|[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18144 Midwest]
|[[Chicago]]
|3/5/2016
|[[Athena Kern]]
|[[WUSTL]]
|"Kurtis et al"<br/>([[Kurtis Droge]], [[Billy Busse]], [[Morgan Venkus]], [[Chinmay Kansara]])
|[[Mike Sorice]]
|[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3458/stats/prelims+playoffs+final/ Prelims+Playoffs+Final]
|-
|[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18234 South]
|[[Alabama]]
|3/5/2016
|[[Jake Sundberg]]
|"Make Alabama Great Again"<br/>([[Jake Sundberg]], [[Eric Douglass]], [[Bryn Douglass]], [[Dargan Ware]])
|"John Milnor's Exotic Vacation"<br/>([[Billy Beyer]], [[Nick Collins]], [[Jeb Houston]], [[Madeline Carlisle]])
|[[Billy Beyer]]
|[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3667/stats/combined/ Combined]
|-
|[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18155 UK]
|[[Oxford]]
|3/5/2016
|[[Daoud Jackson]]
|[[Oxford]] A
|"Bayley's British Cream"<br/>([[Ian Bayley]], [[Edmund Dickinson]], [[Mark Grant]], [[Jonathan Elliot]])
|[[Joey Goldman]]
|[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3464/stats/combined/ Combined]
|-
|[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18157 Skype]
|
|cancelled
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18406 Great Plains]
|[[Oklahoma]]
|3/19/2016
|[[Caleb Kendrick]]
|"Kendrick"<br/>([[Caleb Kendrick]])
|"Bender/Austin"<br/>([[Finn Bender]], [[Dustin Austin]])
|[[Caleb Kendrick]]
|[https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3693/stats/prelims_%28official%29/ Prelims (Official)]
|}

The Oklahoma mirror was only 7 rounds and was forced to change formats after its fifth round when two of the eight total players spread across its five teams had to leave. The remaining players were consolidated into "Oklahoma" and "Other Dudes" for the last two rounds".

Many of the sites also mirrored [[Christmas Present]] and [[Cottage Bowl]].

==References==
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