An update on an earlier table

I asked for volunteers to send me their 2023 ballots for Novel and Series. Several posts ago I posted numbers based on the first 11 volunteers. In the end I had 20 volunteers.

This table shows what happened with the points from the 20 ballots I analysed and the published numbers between rounds 3 and 2 when The Mountain in the Sea was eliminated.

	Volunteers			“Actual”
Work	PntsR3 (Sum)	PntsR2 (Sum)	Difference	R3	R2	Difference
Babel, R.F. Kuang	4.75	5.83	1.08	164.93	164.93	0.00
Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree	1.83	1.83	0.00	210.45	211.45	1.00
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher	2.75	3.33	0.58	207.50	207.67	0.17
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir	2.17	3.17	1.00	196.78	197.28	0.50
The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi	0.67	0.67	0.00	178.68	178.85	0.17
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal	2.08	2.17	0.08	194.32	195.65	1.33

Babel, Nettle & Bone, and Nona the Ninth all receive MORE points from the 20 volunteers than the works do in the published stats.

You know, I’m beginning to suspect that maybe, just maybe, there is something just not quite right about that report. Somebody should ask whoever managed the Hugos in 2023. Forget who that was now.