The Fall Cup: Stage 2 Stats

  


Before we embark upon the knock-out phase, here are a few statistics from the second stage of the competition...

Highest point totals:

  • The Classical (81)
  • Fantastic Life (80)
  • Winter / Dr Bucks' Letter (72)
  • New Puritan (70)


Biggest winning margins:
  • The Classical (33)
  • New Puritan (22)
  • Blindness (17)
  • Fantastic Life (16)

Only just missed out:
  • Victrola Time / I Feel Voxish - went out on a tie-break
  • Barmy / Kicker Conspiracy / No Bulbs - by 3 points

Lowest points totals to qualify:
  • Slates, Slags, Etc. (34)
  • Glam-Racket / Impression of J. Temperance (35)
  • New Face In Hell (37)

Songs that qualified despite getting a zero from one of the panel:
  • New Big Prinz / Leave the Capitol / Shake-Off (bzfgt)
  • Amorator! (Richard)
  • Hittite Man / Chicago, Now! (Lewis)
  • Free Range (Eric)

Songs that finished 1st or 2nd in stage 1 but didn't make it through stage 2:
  • Nine Out of Ten (topped its group - all the rest came second)
  • Athlete Cured
  • Barmy
  • Cab It Up!
  • Elves
  • C’n’C-S Mithering
  • Green-Eyed Loco Man
  • An Older Lover Etc.
  • Jawbone And The Air Rifle
  • Eat Y’self Fitter

Lowest points totals overall:
  • Pine Leaves (7)
  • Pacifying Joint (8)
  • Can Can Summer / Auto Tech Pilot / Sinister Waltz (9)
  • Arms Control Poseur / Copped It (10)
  • The Birmingham School of Business School / Coach and Horses / Gibbus Gibson / Jim’s “The Fall” (11)
  • The Aphid / My Door Is Never (12)

Last 64 qualifiers by album:
  • 5: Hex Enduction Hour / Perverted By Language
  • 4: Slates / Grotesque / Infotainment Scan
  • 3: Real New Fall LP / Your Future Our Clutter / Unutterable
  • 2: This Nation's Saving Grace / The Remainderer* / Levitate / I am Kurious Oranj / Bend Sinister**
  • 1: New Facts Emerge / Wonderful & Frightening / Re-Mit / Room To Live / Imperial Wax Solvent / Dragnet / The Marshall Suite / Fall Heads Roll / Extricate / Middle Class Revolt / Code: Selfish / Sub-Lingual Tablet / Are You Are Missing Winner
  • 0: Live at the Witch Trials / The Frenz Experiment / Reformation Post TLC / The Light User Syndrome / Cerebral Caustic / Ersatz GB / Shift-Work
*Yes, I'm including The Remainderer again
**Including 'Living Too Late', even though it wasn't on the original vinyl version 


The Panel

The first-round statistics showed us that it was my voting that was most in line with the results overall, followed by Lewis, then bzfgt, then Richard. Eric was consistently the biggest outlier.

In the second stage, the 'consensus scores' (the average marks awarded by each judge to the qualifying songs) gave a very different picture:


However, when you consider the number of times a panellist awarded 12+ marks to a song that didn't progress to the last 64, it was bzfgt that topped that table:











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