Please keep in mind that these data cover only 21 teams. This is a very small sample. Draw your conclusions in accordance with the small sample size. Note that there are going to be minor abnormalities in all data for rounds 9-10 because of some issues involving teams playing matches in the wrong bracket, and teams leaving, and so forth. Note also that this data is only as reliable as our scorekeepers.
Keep in mind that bonus conversion taken as an aggregate will be inflated because good teams will get the opportunity to hear more bonuses (by virtue of having fewer tossups go dead).
Tossups 10'd in fewer than 50% of rooms
Round 1: Maxim Gorky (2 out of 9 rooms)
Round 1: electric field (4 out of 9 rooms)
Round 2: heat capacity (1 out of 9 rooms)
Round 2: As You Like It (4 out of 9 rooms)
Round 2: Paul Krugman (4 out of 9 rooms)
Round 3: J. Strauss (2 out of 9 rooms)
Round 3: Honore de Balzac (4 out of 9 rooms)
Round 3: Haruki Murakami (3 out of 9 rooms)
Round 5: J. M. W. Turner (2 out of 9 rooms)
Round 5: David Hume (3 out of 9 rooms)
Round 6: origin of life (4 out of 9 rooms)
Round 8: Young Werther (4 out of 10 rooms)
Round 9: D. H. Lawrence (4 out of 10 rooms)
Round 9: Gunter Grass (4 out of 10 rooms)
Round 9: August Wilson (4 out of 10 rooms)
Tossups -5'd in more than 25% of rooms
Round 1: limestone (4 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 1: Maxim Gorky (5 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 1: electric field (6 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 1: Minnesota (4 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 1: Percy Bysshe Shelley (3 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 1: The Satanic Verses (3 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 2: heat capacity (7 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 2: Baudelaire (3 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 2: phloem (6 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 2: Tammany Hall (5 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 3: Hercules (5 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 3: rats (4 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 3: J. Strauss (3 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 3: potential energy (3 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 3: Rosh Hashanah (4 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 4: Styx (4 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 4: Persian Gulf (3 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 4: Florence (3 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 4: Confirmation (6 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 5: 1st Amendment (3 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 5: Mollusca (4 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 5: precession (3 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 5: fishes (4 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 5: Bangladesh (6 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 7: neutron stars (5 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 7: glycolysis (6 negs in 9 rooms)
Round 8: South Carolina (4 negs in 10 rooms)
Round 8: particle accelerators (5 negs in 10 rooms)
Round 9: lightning (3 negs in 10 rooms)
Round 9: capacitors (3 negs in 10 rooms)
Round 9: Heimdall (3 negs in 10 rooms)
Round 10: Crete (4 negs in 8 rooms)
Round 10: Al Gore (3 negs in 8 rooms)
Round 10: Iraq (5 negs in 8 rooms)
Round 10: Hadrian (3 negs in 8 rooms)
Round 11: Severus Snape (3 negs in 8 rooms)
Round 11: oxygen (3 negs in 8 rooms)
Round 11: 3rd Crusade (3 negs in 8 rooms)
Round 11: polio (4 negs in 8 rooms)
Bonuses with less than 10 PPB on average
Round 1: Thomas Gainsborough / The Blue Boy / Royal Academy of Arts (7.8 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 1: graphs / two / bipartite (6.7 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 1: Lascaux / Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc / Paleolithic (7.8 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 2: deuterocanonical books / Book of Daniel / ancient Greek (5.6 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 3: Syndics of the Drapers' Guild / The Night Watch / Rembrandt (6.7 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 3: Estelle Rigault / No Exit / Jean-Paul Sartre (8.9 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 5: Las Meninas / Diego Velasquez / Juan de Pareja (7.8 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 5: Eero Saarinen / Washington Dulles / Renzo Piano (5.6 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 5: J. M. Keynes / Austrian school / aggregate demand (8.9 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 6: Avogadro's constant / mole / Faraday's constant (5 PPB across 6 rooms)
Round 7: Reconquista / Granada / Visigoths (8.9 PPB across 9 rooms)
Round 8: Go Tell It on the Mountain / James Baldwin / wrestling (4 PPB across 10 rooms)
Round 9: Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert / Monsieur Homais (9 PPB across 10 rooms)
Round 10: Heisenberg Uncertainty / h-bar over 2 / energy and time (7.5 PPB across 8 rooms)
Round 11: tree / heap / post-order traversal (6.3 PPB across 8 rooms)
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Bonus conversion distribution over rounds 1-11
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0s 10s 20s 30s
Round 1 23 44 59 32
Round 2 9 43 51 28
Round 3 27 51 54 17
Round 4 21 41 68 25
Round 5 24 40 38 25
Round 6 21 54 46 39
Round 7 14 57 54 35
Round 8 26 41 69 25
Round 9 21 40 62 23
Round 10 18 34 57 25
Round 11 15 48 56 21
Rounds 1-11 219 493 614 295
Mean bonus conversion (rounds 1-11): 16.08
(this is not the average of each team's bonus conversion; it is the average of the conversion on each individual bonus)
