The contest is here:
Until the am we're letting people get started and take a sneak peak.
Let us know if you see any errors. Also we're debating dropping the max penalty from not having an athlete in the top 10 from 25 points to 10 points. What do you think? Is 10 points max for someone out of the top 10 a better way of scoring.
You can get your picks in now, but we'll finalize the scoring in the morning.
I posted this last night and it went to 2nd page. Anythoughts on losing a max of 10 points in the scoring.
I think losing 10 points would be a step in the right direction, but I would eliminate the penalty for being totally wrong entirely.
Looks good. One small nitpick, in the checkbox row of the login form the left column says "Check here to skip the individual voting", but the right column says "Go to Individual Voting" so I wasn't really sure whether to check it.
I also like the idea of a max cap on loss of points, that will especially help if an athlete DNFs so we don't lose so much on that (maybe in the future we could have a way to choose alternates so nobody can get screwed over by last-minute scratches or DNFs?) But great job on the contest once again guys.
toldyaso wrote:
I think losing 10 points would be a step in the right direction, but I would eliminate the penalty for being totally wrong entirely.
I think the individual scoring should be done much differently.
Individual scoring, you just add up the points of where your 10 picks finish. So you score it like a 10 person cross country team.So the lowest possible is 55 (10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1). Add in a max total. The max anyone can score is 50 so if you DNF it's 50. Maybe have some sort of bonus for nailing the winner. You subtract 10 points from your total if you get the winner right.
I'm wondering if the team scoring should be done similarly. You just add up the points of your 10 pics and the lowest score wins. Again minus 10 for nailing the winner. My biggest fear is there would be a lot of ties.
rojo FTW. I like it!
rojo wrote:
toldyaso wrote:I think losing 10 points would be a step in the right direction, but I would eliminate the penalty for being totally wrong entirely.
I think the individual scoring should be done much differently.
Individual scoring, you just add up the points of where your 10 picks finish. So you score it like a 10 person cross country team.So the lowest possible is 55 (10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1). Add in a max total. The max anyone can score is 50 so if you DNF it's 50. Maybe have some sort of bonus for nailing the winner. You subtract 10 points from your total if you get the winner right.
I'm wondering if the team scoring should be done similarly. You just add up the points of your 10 pics and the lowest score wins. Again minus 10 for nailing the winner. My biggest fear is there would be a lot of ties.
Fortunately Robert has no idea how to change the code.
If we scored it like real cross country then all that would matter would be making sure your 8th, 9th, 10th, guys didn't bomb. Most people don't even know who those people are. Under that system if you got the top 5 completely wrong in the wrong order? Who cares. Pick Cheserek 5th and he gets 1st? Who cares.
I'm leaning to reducing the penalty to 10 points.
I concur.
I don't think it will make me change my picks too much, if at all, but you might see some bolder picks in the 9-10 spots because one might be more willing to risk a runner that could either be top-10 or possibly outside of the top-50 (Like a Ben Saarel)
Contest is up and running.
10 points max loss on individual picks now.
Thanks for the feedback.
wejo wrote:
Contest is up and running.
10 points max loss on individual picks now.
Thanks for the feedback.
Great. This is Weldon's way of saying that he's too lazy to change the code so you'll like it as it is.
Yes I have no idea how to change it.