[BostonCard]

Hi everyone,

Since no one else has stepped up to do it, I guess I'll be putting together the annual prediction game again.  Enclosed is a link to the form for the Rice game.  For those of you who don't have access to google docs, you can pm me your prediction.

https://goo.gl/forms/V821sK4pxU7Bg4ve2

A few people have grumbled about the scoring system, and I am open to comments and/or suggestions.  The rules will need to be locked down by kickoff.  A reminder of the current rules:

* Error is calculated as the sum of the error between your predicted spread and the actual spread, and your predicted mean score and the actual mean score.  Thus, if you predict Stanford 32, Rice 12, and the actual score is Stanford 45, Rice 18, the error in spread is 7 (actual spread is 27, you predicted a 20 point spread) and the error in mean is 11.5 (you predicted a mean score of 20, the actual mean was 31.5).  Thus, the "total error" is 18.5.

* Everybody is ranked first by whether you predicted the correct winner or not and then by error.  This ensures that all the people who picked the right winner will get more points than all the people who picked the wrong winner, no matter how close they were to the actual score.

* The number of points you get for the week is equal to the number of people ranked equal or lower than you (including yourself).  Thus, scores will range from 1 to n, where n is the number of people who submitted a pick for the week.

These rules are open to discussion but will need to be finalized by kickoff.

Good luck everyone.

BC

[BostonCard]

Hi everyone,

Since no one else has stepped up to do it, I guess I'll be putting together the annual prediction game again.  Enclosed is a link to the form for the Rice game.  For those of you who don't have access to google docs, you can pm me your prediction.

https://goo.gl/forms/V821sK4pxU7Bg4ve2

A few people have grumbled about the scoring system, and I am open to comments and/or suggestions.  The rules will need to be locked down by kickoff.  A reminder of the current rules:

* Error is calculated as the sum of the error between your predicted spread and the actual spread, and your predicted mean score and the actual mean score.  Thus, if you predict Stanford 32, Rice 12, and the actual score is Stanford 45, Rice 18, the error in spread is 7 (actual spread is 27, you predicted a 20 point spread) and the error in mean is 11.5 (you predicted a mean score of 20, the actual mean was 31.5).  Thus, the "total error" is 18.5.

* Everybody is ranked first by whether you predicted the correct winner or not and then by error.  This ensures that all the people who picked the right winner will get more points than all the people who picked the wrong winner, no matter how close they were to the actual score.

* The number of points you get for the week is equal to the number of people ranked equal or lower than you (including yourself).  Thus, scores will range from 1 to n, where n is the number of people who submitted a pick for the week.

These rules are open to discussion but will need to be finalized by kickoff.

Good luck everyone.

BC