I don't think it's the # of corrects vs. incorrects that matters per se...it's the fairness of the question & the risk/reward of not going with an obvious choice.

For example, if I made the road points needed 8, & everyone answered the same way (which is unlikely because everyone would have gone even more chalk), there would have been 39 corrects & 13 incorrects. Scores would have ranged from 7 for the best correct answer (Chelsea) to 17 for an incorrect answer (13 for SHEEP + 4 correct answers given), & I think that would be pretty lame & cause the entire question to be mostly useless.

The lower threshold makes Plop & Leicester correct, & rewards the people who went out on a limb by giving them 2 points, & also punishes the incorrects a bit more by creating more distance between them & the SHEEP. The spread of 2 to 19 I think is much more interesting. So 43 right 9 wrong sounds bad, but I think the actual spread within corrects still makes it good, & it's much better than if I had gone with a higher limit which would have led to a boring, & fairly meaningless reveal.

Player questions I think it's better to have a more even split between correct & incorrect answers. This next question I think less than half the field will be correct, so we'll see how it ends up looking & how it works out.

Here is the distribution on the questions already revealed:

#1 - Name a team that will lose their opening game (most games August 12th). 32 right, 20 wrong. Low score 2, sheep score 8, incorrects 14. I think that's pretty good.

#2 - Name a team that will be undefeated at the end of Week 2 (August 20th). 32 right, 20 wrong. Low score 1, sheep score 9, incorrects 15. Also good I think.

#3 - Name a team that will have 3 or less points by the end of Week 3 (August 27th). 13 right, 39 wrong. Low score 1, sheep score 5, incorrects 9 or 15. This one was weird because 15 people said Burnley & it was wrong. If they were right it would be 28, 24 with 1, 15, 20, & that would be an even distribution. Got to invoke the weird rule I made up to punish people who pick huge incorrect sheeps. I think overall this was ok, though.

#4 - Name a player who will have 2 or more goals by the end of Week 5 (September 17th). 32 right, 20 wrong. Low score 1, sheep 8, incorrects 17. Back to 32-20 again. Not bad I don't think.

#5 - Name a goalkeeper who will have 2 or more clean sheets by the end of Week 7 (October 1st). 44 right, 8 wrong. Low score 1, sheep 9, incorrects 19. I tried to project the approximate # of clean sheets based on full season work, but I was obviously a bit off. If asking the question again next year, would have to either move it up, make the requirement 3, or move it back & make it more. The breakdown is still ok & leveling wars can be interesting, but agree that it should be harder.

#6 - Name a team that will have 5 or more road points by the end of Week 9 (October 22nd). 43 right, 9 wrong. Low score 2, sheep 13, incorrects 19. Ideally there would be less correct answers, but there's a bigger spread between Liverpool/Leicester pickers (& if anyone had said Burnley/Watford/Swansea) & City pickers than there are between City pickers & the wrong answers, so I think that's fine, even if too heavily correct.