Final December Predictions Standings

To appear in the cumulative standings, you must have predicted at least two-thirds of the games for the time period in which the standings reflect. You must also have predicted in at least seven of the past ten games (unless 10 games have not yet been played for the season).

Standings:
1. DaRizzle - Avg Rank 12.1; 12 games; Current = 8
2. RayDavies - Avg Rank 13.6; 13 games; Current = 9
3. Its GO time - Avg Rank 14.0; 12 games; Current = 8
4. Chuck Taylor - Avg Rank 14.6; 11 games; Current = 7
5. Basel57 - Avg Rank 15.6; 13 games; Current = 10
6. Darkwebs - Avg Rank 15.8; Avg Tot Diff 15.5; 14 games; Current = 10
7. Trader Ed - Avg Rank 15.8; Avg Tot Diff 17.6; 13 games; Current = 9
8. Nikolokolus - Avg Rank 15.9; 14 games; Current = 10
9. PapaG - Avg Rank 16.2; 12 games; Current = 10
10. mgb - Avg Rank 16.3; 13 games; Current = 9
11. Uncle Ty - Avg Rank 16.4; 12 games; Current = 8
12. alext42083 - Avg Rank 17.0; 14 games; Current = 10
13. 1 Eye Jack - Avg Rank 17.4; 12 games; Current = 9
14. Entity - Avg Rank 17.8; 12 games; Current = 9
15. Tortimer - Avg Rank 18.2; 14 games; Current = 10
16. e_blazer - Avg Rank 18.4; Avg Tot Diff 16.9; 14 games; Current = 10
17. BeerBoy - Avg Rank 18.4; Avg Tot Diff 17.0; 14 games; Current = 10
18. Blazer4life - Avg Rank 18.5; 14 games; Current = 10
19. MrJayremmie - Avg Rank 18.7; 11 games; Current = 8
20. MARIS61 - Avg Rank 19.0; 14 games; Current = 10
21. noknobs - Avg Rank 19.2; 14 games; Current = 10
22. Zybot - Avg Rank 19.7; 11 games; Current = 7
23. sportsnut1975 - Avg Rank 19.9; Avg Tot Diff 18.9; 13 games; Current = 9
24. BlazerFanForLife - Avg Rank 19.9; Avg Tot Diff 20.1; 11 games; Current = 8
25. MAS RipCity - Avg Rank 20.2; Avg Tot Diff 16.4; 12 games; Current = 8
26. BlazerBeachBum - Avg Rank 20.2; Avg Tot Diff 17.6; 14 games; Current = 10
27. hoojacks - Avg Rank 22.5; 11 games; Current = 8
28. GrandpaBlaze - Avg Rank 23.0; 14 games; Current = 10
29. RW#30 - Avg Rank 23.3; 11 games; Current = 7
30. cdub503 - Avg Rank 25.3; 10 games; Current = 7
31. gambitnut - Avg Rank 25.5; 11 games; Current = 7

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Gramps...

 

Thanks Gramps!


........Time to go for the three-peat!

 

Your avatar is heinous... please, for the love of God, change it before I scratch my own eyes out.

 

Its a pic of myself...be nice

 

Does that tattoo on your tummy say Tubby Life or Tugboat Life?

 

Thug Life fool! Im straight gangsta! Cant you tell from my SN??? Thug life til I die homey!

 

Gramps, since the winner of the last 2 months (congrats DaRizzle!) has won when predicting in less than all the games each month I am wondering is there some sort of penalty for that in your calculating the winner.

It is so much easier to predict say 14 games and play it safe by leaving out the 4 that are less obvious in their outcome, than it is to correctly predict all 18 games. I'd say it is a huge difference.

Anyway, I didn't know if this was already offset in your formula or maybe I should just start skipping games to increase my odds of winning?

Thanks again for the hard work.

 

This is Gramps post on the rules. The bold part is what you are interested in. To specifically answer your question there is one possible penalty for picking less games. In the event of a tie on average AND average of the winning teams score it will then go to who picked more games. So as long as there is no tie there is no penalty for picking less games as long as you meet the minimum amount.

...correct me if Im wrong Gramps.

 

Also, FYI, while I have missed a game here and there it was either due to me forgetting OR I had 1st place wrapped up and had the minimum number of games so I didnt want to fuck up my average. Ive never skipped a game due to it being a tough pick

 

Nope. As DaRizzle pointed out in the rules, there are established minimums for appearing in the cumulative rankings. There must be an allowance for people missing an occasional game (whether due to their choice or because they forgot, couldn't post, etc.).

The minimum standard used to be 50% of the games but when there started being prizes, a number of posters requested that minimum be upped as there were some who did as you mentioned, and just skipped the more controversial games.

Likewise, it was either last year or the year before that the currency (must have predicted 7 of the last 10 rule) factor was established as we had cases where people got the 2/3rds minimum and then skipped the rest of a month or a whole month (in order to win a half season/full season).

The combination of the two rules, overall predictions and currency force people to participate regularly but still gives leeway to miss an occasional game.

DaRizzle was totally in his rights to skip the Boston game as he had met all the minimum requirements. As we might say in regard to Nate's coaching, it was a good strategic coaching move well within the rules of the game.

Gramps...