| --- |
| configs: |
| - config_name: tournaments |
| data_files: |
| - split: '2023' |
| path: tournaments/2023-* |
| - split: '2024' |
| path: tournaments/2024-* |
| - split: '2025' |
| path: tournaments/2025-* |
| - split: full |
| path: tournaments/full-* |
| - config_name: teams |
| data_files: |
| - split: '2023' |
| path: teams/2023-* |
| - split: '2024' |
| path: teams/2024-* |
| - split: '2025' |
| path: teams/2025-* |
| - split: full |
| path: teams/full-* |
| - config_name: players |
| data_files: |
| - split: '2023' |
| path: players/2023-* |
| - split: '2024' |
| path: players/2024-* |
| - split: '2025' |
| path: players/2025-* |
| - split: full |
| path: players/full-* |
| - config_name: games |
| data_files: |
| - split: '2023' |
| path: games/2023-* |
| - split: '2024' |
| path: games/2024-* |
| - split: '2025' |
| path: games/2025-* |
| - split: full |
| path: games/full-* |
| - config_name: tossup_questions |
| data_files: |
| - split: '2023' |
| path: tossup_questions/2023-* |
| - split: '2024' |
| path: tossup_questions/2024-* |
| - split: '2025' |
| path: tossup_questions/2025-* |
| - split: full |
| path: tossup_questions/full-* |
| - config_name: bonus_questions |
| data_files: |
| - split: '2023' |
| path: bonus_questions/2023-* |
| - split: '2024' |
| path: bonus_questions/2024-* |
| - split: '2025' |
| path: bonus_questions/2025-* |
| - split: full |
| path: bonus_questions/full-* |
| - config_name: question_placements |
| data_files: |
| - split: '2023' |
| path: question_placements/2023-* |
| - split: '2024' |
| path: question_placements/2024-* |
| - split: '2025' |
| path: question_placements/2025-* |
| - split: full |
| path: question_placements/full-* |
| - config_name: tossup_responses |
| data_files: |
| - split: '2023' |
| path: tossup_responses/2023-* |
| - split: '2024' |
| path: tossup_responses/2024-* |
| - split: '2025' |
| path: tossup_responses/2025-* |
| - split: full |
| path: tossup_responses/full-* |
| - config_name: bonus_responses |
| data_files: |
| - split: '2023' |
| path: bonus_responses/2023-* |
| - split: '2024' |
| path: bonus_responses/2024-* |
| - split: '2025' |
| path: bonus_responses/2025-* |
| - split: full |
| path: bonus_responses/full-* |
| --- |
| # SCOUT: ACF 2023–2025 quizbowl play, anonymized |
|
|
| SCOUT (Skill Composition Of Unseen Teams) pairs quizbowl questions with |
| recorded tournament play. This repository is an anonymized replica of |
| `mgor/acf-co-23-25@1156b66`: ACF Fall, Winter, Regionals, Nationals, and Chicago Open |
| question sets from 2023 through 2025, with the games, player buzzes, and team |
| bonus answers played on them. It has the same nine linked configs, splits, |
| rows, and IDs as the source; only the fields listed under *Anonymization* |
| differ. |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| games = load_dataset("mgor/SCOUT-anon", "games", split="2024") |
| tossups = load_dataset("mgor/SCOUT-anon", "tossup_questions", split="full") |
| buzzes = load_dataset("mgor/SCOUT-anon", "tossup_responses", split="2024") |
| ``` |
|
|
| Each config has `2023`, `2024`, `2025`, and `full` splits. `full` has every |
| row. Tournament, team, game, placement, and response rows use the tournament |
| or edition year; a player or a canonical question appears in every year it |
| occurs, so year splits of `players`, `tossup_questions`, `bonus_questions` |
| overlap. |
|
|
| ## Anonymization |
|
|
| | Field | Treatment | |
| | --- | --- | |
| | `players` | `player_id`, an opaque `p-NNNNN` numbered in random order, and `name`, set to the same ID. Real names, slugs, person IDs, and source record IDs are removed. | |
| | `teams.players`, `tossup_responses.player_id` | The same opaque player IDs. | |
| | `teams.name`, `teams.slug` | A random club pseudonym plus the source suffix (`A`, `B`, `2`, ...). Entries of one club share the pseudonym, and a team name keeps one pseudonym across tournaments. Novelty team names count as their own club. | |
| | `teams.hash` | MD5 (first 12 hex) of the sorted anonymized roster. | |
| | `games.packet_name`, `question_placements.packet_name`, question `metadata.packet` | A neutral label such as `Packet C`, `Prelims 3`, or `Packet J (Playoffs 1)`. Source packet names list writers and submitting teams. | |
|
|
| The mapping uses a secret seed and is not published. Tournaments (names, host |
| sites, dates), question text, and all other IDs are unchanged: they are public |
| event and packet information and name no players. |
|
|
| ## Configs |
|
|
| | Config | Grain | Key fields | |
| | --- | --- | --- | |
| | `tournaments` | tournament site | `tournament_id`, `level` (fall/winter/regionals/nationals/open), `field_level`, `dots` (1 to 4 difficulty tier), dates, `question_set` | |
| | `teams` | team entry at a tournament | `team_id`, `tournament_id`, `name`, `players` (roster of `player_id`) | |
| | `players` | person | `player_id`, `name` (= `player_id`) | |
| | `games` | game | `game_id`, `tournament_id`, `team_a`, `team_b`, `round`, `type`, `packet_id`, `tossups_read` | |
| | `tossup_questions` | canonical tossup | `qid`, `question`, answers, `clue_spans` (character `[start, end]` per clue), `metadata` (category, subcategory, difficulty, question set, packet, `human_buzz_positions`) | |
| | `bonus_questions` | canonical bonus | `qid`, `leadin`, `parts` (question, answers, `value`, `difficulty_modifier` e/m/h), `metadata` | |
| | `question_placements` | question x packet edition | `qid`, `question_type`, `packet_id`, `question_number`, `is_canonical_qid_placement` | |
| | `tossup_responses` | recorded buzz | `game_id`, `qid`, `team_id`, `player_id`, `buzz_number`, `correctness`, `value`, `token_position`, `n_clues_heard` | |
| | `bonus_responses` | team x bonus part | `game_id`, `team_id`, `bonus_qid`, `bonus_part_id`, `correctness`, `value`, `is_scored` | |
|
|
| Join teams and games to `tournaments` by `tournament_id`, games to teams by |
| `team_a` / `team_b`, buzzes to tossups by `qid`, bonus responses to bonuses by |
| `bonus_qid`, and placements to questions by `question_type` and `qid`. A game's |
| tossups are the placements of its `packet_id` with `question_number` up to |
| `tossups_read`; tossups with no buzz were read and went dead. |
|
|
| ## Interpretation |
|
|
| - `teams.players` is the tournament roster, not the lineup of a game. |
| - Recorded buzzes are observations, not every opportunity to buzz. |
| `token_position` counts whitespace tokens of the source question, including a |
| leading moderator note that sanitizing removed for some tossups; |
| `n_clues_heard` is the 1-based clue a buzz is credited to (a buzz at most 5 |
| tokens past a clue's end counts for that clue). |
| - Buzz `value` is normally 15, 10, 0, or −5; `correctness` is `value > 0`. |
| - 114 bonus-part rows from 2023 Nationals have `is_scored: false` (source `NA`); |
| exclude them from conversion rates. |
| - `games.type` is set only when the source packet name had an explicit stage |
| label, so null does not imply a stage. |
|
|
