53 vs 54 point word rarity in 5x5

[BoggleOtaku]

Thanks for the reply, Naboka.

For me the best thing that has come out of this effort so far is to give recognition to people that have been close to lifetime active participants in wordtwist and the competitions.

There are other ways to give recognition as well. It's a rich game with many different possible facets and combinations of facets that people like to explore and compete in that aren't directly recognized by such competitions. The lifetime list has narrower recognition than the monthy competitions, so there can be recognition for broader facets at a lifetime scale, at scales between monthly and lifetime (especially divided in three to recognize the mass broadening of allowed words that has occurred twice), in combinations such as high word count and word points combined, etc.

I think it is useful and relevant to look at different scoring formulas to try to draw out different facets and different people otherwise unrecognized directly in official competitions, that are excelling, intentionally or not, at some style of play. Especially those long supportive of the game. Some was of looking at the data may not be super useful (like the unique words I tried, usefulness dampened by the masking of higher point words). But press on, as you wrote, toward "relevancy and usability."

[lalatan]

Now that I figured out how to do this, there are a lot of interest aspects to explore. If you or anyone else have an idea for me of something interesting to look at, let me know.

I was interested in who has the most word point records over 18 years. And then how may word point records are for words only on the list one time in 18 years.

These results look really surprising to me, so I'll have to check my code more, but maybe it makes sense.

Word Point Monthly Competition top 40 most recorded words
All words found in 18 years (count) Unique words found (count)*
ranking 18 years wordpoint.png
*Unique words found are those recorded in all 18 years of monthly competitions
only one single time.

I am not quite sure of these results yet and need to do more checking.
Just as an example, here are the words recorded by one person that appears in both lists above:

Unique Words recorded
ACCOMMODATINGNESSES, ALLOTROPICALLY, AMPHITHEATRICAL, ANATOMICOPATHOLOGICAL, ANIMATENESS, CARDIOACCELERATION, DEMATERIALISATION, DEVALORISATIONS, DISCORPORATES, DISEMBARRASSMENTS, DUCTILITIES, ELECTROFILTERING, EXORCISER, EXTRAVAGANTNESSES, FEROCIOUSNESSES, FLOWCHARTINGS, FORMULARISATION, GLUCONATES, HEPATOTOXICITY, HYDROMETEOROLOGICALLY, HYDROXYTESTOSTERONES, HYPEREXCITEMENTS, IMPERTURBABILITIES, INGRAINEDNESSES, INTELLECTUALISERS, INTENTNESSES, KENOSISES, LEANNESSES, NONDEDUCTIBILITIES, NONSTEREOSPECIFICITY, OSSATURES, OVEREXTRAPOLATIONS, OVERPROVOCATIONS, PERENNIALIZATIONS, PHOTOBIOSTIMULATION, PSEUDOHEMOPHILIAS, QUASISPHERICALLY, RECONCENTRATIONS, RELEGITIMISATIONS, REPUDIATIONISTS, RESTRICTEDNESSES, SCENARIZES, SENSITISER, SUPERFICIALIZING, SUPERWORLDLINESSES, TESTIMONIALIZING, TRANSCENDENTALIZING, TRANSCENDENTALNESS, TUTORIZES, UNADVANCEDNESSES, UNCOMPLAININGNESSES, UNIRRITABLENESSES, UNQUALIFIEDNESSES

What seems strange about the first list is that there are many words I and others have found. But maybe they are lower points than other words that the same people often find and so are almost always masked from appearing in the competition.

I haven't read the forum for a few weeks but noticed this thread today. For sure the better long word players have a best scoring word worth more than those in your unique words list. During my search for long word records I always play a game that has a best score of >=44 pts. It gives me practice on those words and also reduces my APPW average. I've been doing that for years so you'd never see me (or Spike and others in the APPW monthly competition) in the unique words list. I searched my screenshots of words I found for the first time, looking for the unique words you listed. They were all valued at 30-38 pts. Last month there were 62 players whose best word played was valued between 40-53 pts. So using your criteria for unique words, none of them would ever show up if they played any of those unique words in your example.

In light of that I suggest that many who have unique words likely played them before long word players such as those I mentioned started doing our thing. And yes, I also have seen words come and go. I played SINTERABILITIES numerous times years ago. I was surprised by how often it showed up. But I haven't seen it for years now.