While we can't cover specifics, please take a look at our Help Center article for more info on how the views are counted: http://yt.be/help/Jgao . Hope this helps.
Okay I'll look though that according to that my view count was frozen at 2 to verify the legitimacy of the views that were beyond two... so logically I should have 5 views to get 30 minutes out of 9 HOWEVER that doesn't explain the average view duration exceeding the max time.