--Raj Dhuwalia stated... <<I'd think it must have happened at some point, though I don't recall ever being on a team that got all 20. UF came very close at COTKU -- got 19 and would have had a 20th if not for my neg on a Harmon Killebrew tossup. I know my teams have gotten at least 18 on a number of occasions. Most matches like that get derailed by a neg or by a surprisingly quick buzz from the losing team. But simply by luck of the draw, or perhaps as the upper tail of a Poisson distribution, it seems like it must have happened a few times.>> Except I think that it would be the stuff of song and story if it did. I know that people can get a chuckle out of R. Hentzel with the mention of an Easy-Bake oven, which cost him a perfect game. I know that I have been close twice, once in the 1997 Ann B. Davis, where my team went 20 of 21 in one game, and once in a CBI IM game where I went 20-1 in a game, but I honestly don't think it has happened...yet. Also, I could be very wrong, but Poisson distribution wouldn't apply in this because each question is an independent event which does not have an even chance of being answered correctly, so it wouldn't necessarily have to happen. But it's Barker math, so it could be way off the mark. Craig Barker [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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