This week, I will try to identify the lucky and unlucky teams in FADUCO. We'll see which teams deserve their standing position or not. My criteria is you are lucky if you won despite scoring 75 points or less. You are unlucky or had a bad beat if you scored 90 points or more that week but lost. Otherwise, it can be said that you deserved to win or lose given your points that week. Let's go through each team in alphabetical order:
Byron
Number of Lucky wins: 2 (67-56 vs Tuna and 75-40 vs Hai)
Number of Unlucky losses: 1 (96-97 vs PJ)
Net Luck: +1 - a bit lucky
Donny
Number of Lucky wins: 2 (67-65 vs Tuna and 72-67 vs Matt)
Number of Unlucky losses: 4 or 5 (101-120 vs Victor, 113-141 vs Hai, 91-98 vs Hai, 105-106 vs Victor! Where Victor got a scoring change the day after - let's count that as double unlucky). Victor changed his team name after he tossed some rice upon the advice of Hai's wife the night before the scoring change
Net Luck: -3 - Very Unlucky
Hai
Number of Lucky wins: 0
Number of Unlucky losses: 1 (92-126 vs Victor)
Net Luck: -1 - a bit unlucky
Justin
Number of Lucky wins: 0
Number of Unlucky losses: 1 (90-105 vs Hai)
Net Luck: -1 - a bit unlucky
Kevin
Number of Lucky wins: 0
Number of Unlucky losses: 1 (106-111 vs Justin)
Net Luck: -1 - a bit unlucky
Number of Lucky wins: 3 (73-56 vs Tuna, 73-70 vs Justin, 75-63 vs Vu)
Number of Unlucky losses: 0
Net Luck: +3 - Very Lucky
PJ
Number of Lucky wins: 0
Number of Unlucky losses: 0
Net Luck: 0 - Neutral luck
Victor
Number of Lucky wins: 0
Number of Unlucky losses: 3 (97-98 vs Vu, 91-144 vs Tuna, 98-103 vs Hai)
Net Luck: -3 - Very Unlucky
Vu
Number of Lucky wins: 1 (54-53 vs Hai)
Number of Unlucky losses: 0
Net Luck: +1 - a bit lucky
So there you have it. Only 3 teams stand out with their luck. Matt with his 9-3 record seems to have been blessed by Lady Luck. Donny and until recently Victor have cursed teams. Surprisingly, only 3 of the "lucky wins" had a Caucasian team on the losing side. There were actually 6 games where the winning team lucked out because the Asian team scored less than 75. However, it's more likely to be unlucky when facing an Asian team - 9 times the unlucky side faced an Asian team compared to only 3 times where they got bad-beat by a Caucasian team. This could show that Asian teams are more volatile, despite having an overall superior scoring average.
Speaking of superior Asian performance - In its 20 year-history, no celebrity ever won the Million dollar prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Until last week (His phone-a-friend is half-Korean, so I guess it's 75% Asian Performance).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmkOI6bWKs
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