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'Hipple said:
I just answer them all, though I must've skipped one by accident cuz I have 99 entries. That and I think I missed a whole day. I think people should have to answer the entire block of questions personally, as the last poster was right. If K/D are harder to predict you know some schmuck is gonna skip those ones...
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:whistle: I didn't actually skip the kicker/defensive ones, but I did skip a handful where I just wasn't very sure of anything.

 
'apalmer said:
'Hipple said:
'apalmer said:
So ten minutes making picks gives me 3rd place and pays me almost double what I got for the hours of calculations and 16 weeks of watching scores in last year's Subscriber contest? I like it. :thumbup:
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Umm you know that the 'hours of calculation' are done for you if you just wait. :cool:
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The hours of calculations were before Week 1. I don't think anyone was going to do them for me. Thanks anyway.
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At least Arnold Palmer had a sense of humor.And I thought you meant, as many, many people here do. Calculating their scores vs the cut of line. Like what their remaining players need to score better than to improve their scores. But I guess that might be what you count score watching. (though I bet you calculated that too...)
 
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'Hipple said:
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'gheemony said:
I don't think you should allow folks to "strategize" by not answering the K or D questions. As set up, I could answer questions all four days and avoid the hardest questions each day.

If the goal is a "contest", then contestants should be able to take advantage of the rules, etc.

But if the goal is to create a WOC output that is valuable to subscribers and reward those for participation, then make everyone answer every question they get. Otherwise, the K and D rankings will be subpar and we don't get the WOC on the real hard decisions each week. It also reduces the skill involved (the better contestant can figure out Ks as well as QBs).

I also liked the 50 questions a week to get more data for the rankings. It didn't take much time. Go with your gut.

The rules should also have some factor for rewarding for more questions answered. Again, this inentivizes more data for the WOC rankings.
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If people aren't making a choice, it means they don't have the necessary confidence level to do so. Forcing them to flip a coin doesn't help the validity of the WOC rankings. It only gives a false impression of how many people thought kicker A was a better choice than kicker B. I'd rather see an accurate measure of a smaller sample size than a bogus measure of a larger sample size.
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are the individual results listed? What kind of % did it take to 'place' last week.
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From DD's earlier post: Link
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17. Hipple 32 50 0 64.00too bad i didn't remember to answer more. :bag:

 
'Hipple said:
'apalmer said:
'gheemony said:
I don't think you should allow folks to "strategize" by not answering the K or D questions. As set up, I could answer questions all four days and avoid the hardest questions each day.If the goal is a "contest", then contestants should be able to take advantage of the rules, etc. But if the goal is to create a WOC output that is valuable to subscribers and reward those for participation, then make everyone answer every question they get. Otherwise, the K and D rankings will be subpar and we don't get the WOC on the real hard decisions each week. It also reduces the skill involved (the better contestant can figure out Ks as well as QBs).I also liked the 50 questions a week to get more data for the rankings. It didn't take much time. Go with your gut.The rules should also have some factor for rewarding for more questions answered. Again, this inentivizes more data for the WOC rankings.
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If people aren't making a choice, it means they don't have the necessary confidence level to do so. Forcing them to flip a coin doesn't help the validity of the WOC rankings. It only gives a false impression of how many people thought kicker A was a better choice than kicker B. I'd rather see an accurate measure of a smaller sample size than a bogus measure of a larger sample size.
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since the FBG rankers don't get to pass on anyone in a given week, I don't think we should either. They are forced to make the same calls even when they don't like the outcome Like when I had Kerry collins vs luke mcknown :X
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They don't get to "pass", but they can predict two guys as being equal. Picking Nugent and Folk to each score 6 points, tells you something. Being forced to say one will outscore the other would tell you something different and would be a distortion.
 
'apalmer said:
'Hipple said:
'apalmer said:
'gheemony said:
I don't think you should allow folks to "strategize" by not answering the K or D questions. As set up, I could answer questions all four days and avoid the hardest questions each day.If the goal is a "contest", then contestants should be able to take advantage of the rules, etc. But if the goal is to create a WOC output that is valuable to subscribers and reward those for participation, then make everyone answer every question they get. Otherwise, the K and D rankings will be subpar and we don't get the WOC on the real hard decisions each week. It also reduces the skill involved (the better contestant can figure out Ks as well as QBs).I also liked the 50 questions a week to get more data for the rankings. It didn't take much time. Go with your gut.The rules should also have some factor for rewarding for more questions answered. Again, this inentivizes more data for the WOC rankings.
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If people aren't making a choice, it means they don't have the necessary confidence level to do so. Forcing them to flip a coin doesn't help the validity of the WOC rankings. It only gives a false impression of how many people thought kicker A was a better choice than kicker B. I'd rather see an accurate measure of a smaller sample size than a bogus measure of a larger sample size.
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since the FBG rankers don't get to pass on anyone in a given week, I don't think we should either. They are forced to make the same calls even when they don't like the outcome Like when I had Kerry collins vs luke mcknown :X
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They don't get to "pass", but they can predict two guys as being equal. Picking Nugent and Folk to each score 6 points, tells you something. Being forced to say one will outscore the other would tell you something different and would be a distortion.
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:rolleyes: then a pass should be treated as a "push" instead of an abstention. As it is it's just a 'this one is too hard for me, I'd rather just try and call the obvious ones...
 
Is there a link to review your answers for the week? You can do it during the week but I can't seem to find it now.

 
Looks Like I am in the lead of people that answered all 100 for what it is worth... well I guess someone answered 99 that is ahead of me ....so far... 12 still pending.

 
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3. BoomBoom 47/66 71.21

Just noticed I am 3rd place and qualify for the $50 weekly 3rd place prize?! Definitely a pleasant surprise if that's the case. I'm assuming payouts will be done at the end of the year?

 
Looks like I am the first winner (!!!!!) :football:

How do we claim our prizes?

Many thanks to Joe, David, and Doug for organizing this contest for the subscribers.

Contestant Correct Total Tied/Pending PCT

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1. Matt Vereb 54 73 2 73.97

 
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'mvereb said:
Looks like I am the first winner (!!!!!) :football: How do we claim our prizes? Many thanks to Joe, David, and Doug for organizing this contest for the subscribers. Contestant Correct Total Tied/Pending PCT---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Matt Vereb 54 73 2 73.97
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Second winner, but who's counting?
 
'mvereb said:
Looks like I am the first winner (!!!!!) :football: How do we claim our prizes? Many thanks to Joe, David, and Doug for organizing this contest for the subscribers. Contestant Correct Total Tied/Pending PCT---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Matt Vereb 54 73 2 73.97
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Congrats Matt! I don't know exactly how the payments get handled, but your email address has been forwarded to Dodds and he should be in contact with you at some point in the not-too-distant future.
 
'Doug Drinen said:
Joe mentioned this in an email a few nights ago. He's fascinated by the concept of the Wisdom of Crowds and no one has a wiser crowd than we do. So we're going to see what happens when we let you all build a set of community rankings.

The basics: you answer up to 50 WDIS questions per day. Answer them better than anyone else, you win cash.

Read the rules

Get started

Questions and comments? Post them here in this thread.
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DougOne question. This is what the rules state:

For the overall contest, your score will be determined by the following formula:

SCORE = 3*(your highest weekly score) + 2*(your second-highest weekly score) + (your third-highest weekly score)
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What does "highest weekly score" mean? The percentage, or actual questions answered correctly?For example, my team vs Hatch last week. I had a higher percentage correct, but he answered more questions correctly than I did, because of the volume of questions he answered. Just wondering where to focus my energy, because your weekly strategy could differ from your yearly strategy depending on the answer to this.

 
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'Jed said:
'Doug Drinen said:
Joe mentioned this in an email a few nights ago. He's fascinated by the concept of the Wisdom of Crowds and no one has a wiser crowd than we do. So we're going to see what happens when we let you all build a set of community rankings.

The basics: you answer up to 50 WDIS questions per day. Answer them better than anyone else, you win cash.

Read the rules

Get started

Questions and comments? Post them here in this thread.
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DougOne question. This is what the rules state:

For the overall contest, your score will be determined by the following formula:

SCORE = 3*(your highest weekly score) + 2*(your second-highest weekly score) + (your third-highest weekly score)
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What does "highest weekly score" mean? The percentage, or actual questions answered correctly?For example, my team vs Hatch last week. I had a higher percentage correct, but he answered more questions correctly than I did, because of the volume of questions he answered. Just wondering where to focus my energy, because your weekly strategy could differ from your yearly strategy depending on the answer to this.
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:goodposting: I was wondering the same thing.
 
'JamesFFB said:
'Jed said:
'Doug Drinen said:
Joe mentioned this in an email a few nights ago. He's fascinated by the concept of the Wisdom of Crowds and no one has a wiser crowd than we do. So we're going to see what happens when we let you all build a set of community rankings.

The basics: you answer up to 50 WDIS questions per day. Answer them better than anyone else, you win cash.

Read the rules

Get started

Questions and comments? Post them here in this thread.
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DougOne question. This is what the rules state:

For the overall contest, your score will be determined by the following formula:

SCORE = 3*(your highest weekly score) + 2*(your second-highest weekly score) + (your third-highest weekly score)
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What does "highest weekly score" mean? The percentage, or actual questions answered correctly?For example, my team vs Hatch last week. I had a higher percentage correct, but he answered more questions correctly than I did, because of the volume of questions he answered. Just wondering where to focus my energy, because your weekly strategy could differ from your yearly strategy depending on the answer to this.
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:goodposting: I was wondering the same thing.
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Percentage. With only weeks where you qualified counting, of course. I'll clarify the rules page. Thanks.

 
I really wish that I could submit at least a few picks on sunday or let me at more questions early. Forgot one day and I'm not qualified. :(

 
'griff321 said:
I really wish that I could submit at least a few picks on sunday or let me at more questions early. Forgot one day and I'm not qualified. :(
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Should be able to miss one day and have enough questions if you answer at least 20 on each of the other three days
 
My cumulative result so far is 56.7%, with an unexpected breakdown:

Code: 
QB	71.4%RB	54.3%WR	54.3%TE	50.0%FLEX	48.6%K	81.8%DEF	57.1%	Wed	64.0%Thu	68.8%Fri	55.1%Sat	42.9%
 
47th place this week. With a completely inexplicable 19-6 record on Thursday. Even a blind nut finds a squirrel once in a while, I guess.

-QG

 
For the overall contest, your score will be determined by the following formula:SCORE = 3*(your highest weekly score) + 2*(your second-highest weekly score) + (your third-highest weekly score)
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Is there a place to see your standing in the overall contest as described above?
 
Here are the top 10 of those who qualified both weeks:

The order is Week 2, Week 3, then the score (3*higher, 2*lower

magicbench 72.86 65.28 349.14

Matt Vereb 73.97 61.76 345.43

JamesFFB 68.29 62.5 329.87

Jamais Vu 67.8 62.71 328.82

kardplayer 68.18 61.76 328.06

Jed 70.77 57.38 327.07

Cubs Suck 62.63 65.31 321.19

The Wood 70.27 54.08 318.97

chihawk 62.16 64.86 318.9

Hatch 69.7 54 317.1

If anyone can each me how to do a table, I'd love to learn

 
'kardplayer said:
Here are the top 10 of those who qualified both weeks:The order is Week 2, Week 3, then the score (3*higher, 2*lowermagicbench 72.86 65.28 349.14Matt Vereb 73.97 61.76 345.43JamesFFB 68.29 62.5 329.87Jamais Vu 67.8 62.71 328.82kardplayer 68.18 61.76 328.06Jed 70.77 57.38 327.07Cubs Suck 62.63 65.31 321.19The Wood 70.27 54.08 318.97chihawk 62.16 64.86 318.9Hatch 69.7 54 317.1If anyone can each me how to do a table, I'd love to learn
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Click on "Insert Code Snippet" above.It looks like this: <>
 
This looks better... Thanks!

Code: 
magicbench	72.86	65.28	349.14Matt Vereb	73.97	61.76	345.43JamesFFB	68.29	62.5	329.87Jamais Vu	67.8	62.71	328.82kardplayer	68.18	61.76	328.06Jed             70.77	57.38	327.07Cubs Suck	62.63	65.31	321.19The Wood	70.27	54.08	318.97chihawk	        62.16	64.86	318.9Hatch	        69.7	54	317.1
 
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Not sure how I missed this.

I've made my choices but I have a question...do I have to enter comments supporting my picks or is that just optional?

 
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