[PREDICTION CONTESTS] Discussion Thread

[tuniscof 152]

the rest of the standings will be posted tomorrow

[Pablita 185]

While waiting for the results, I want to suggest a different predictor design for the contests where we have to guess the winners instead of the results.

 

The idea is due to the fact that it could be very hard-working filling a big table like in Swimming and Athletics and many errors can happen for example wrong cut-and-paste, accidentaly copy two times the same athlet or have misteriously mix up the whole table.

 

I think the design shown below could help to

1. make the prediction quickly because you have only to put 'x' instead of copy-and-paste the names
2. avoid cut and paste errors
3. make easily the prediction also with smartphone because you have only to copy the big table and then fill it with 'x'

What do you think? Could it be useful? Maybe we can make a test at the beginning of 2018.

 

Here a couple of examples (if you have to guess the first 5 athlets it's enough to add two more columns on the left)

 

Example 1: 3 different athlets

Event and Date	Athletes	Gold	Silver		Bronze
Men's 100m Day 2, August 5th, 2017	Ben Youssef Meité
	Jimmy Vicaut
	Chijindu Ujah
	Yohan Blake
	Usain Bolt				x
	Thando Roto
	Akani Simbine
	Christopher Belcher
	Christian Coleman		x
	Justin Gatlin	x
	Any Other

 

 

Example 2: option Any Other used twice

 

Event and Date	Athletes	Gold	Silver		Bronze
Men's 100m Day 2, August 5th, 2017	Ben Youssef Meité
	Jimmy Vicaut
	Chijindu Ujah
	Yohan Blake
	Usain Bolt
	Thando Roto
	Akani Simbine
	Christopher Belcher
	Christian Coleman		x
	Justin Gatlin
	Any Other	x			x

 

 

[bestmen 2,808]

oooooooh and i thought that my predictions of athletics are pretty good

[bestmen 2,808]

@Pablita yes good idea but the page will become very long as there are over 30-40 races

 

horizontal tables  could be better

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 14, 2017 by bestmen

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[vinipereira 3,239]

3 hours ago, Pablita said:

I think the design shown below could help to

1. make the prediction quickly because you have only to put 'x' instead of copy-and-paste the names
2. avoid cut and paste errors
3. make easily the prediction also with smartphone because you have only to copy the big table and then fill it with 'x'

What do you think? Could it be useful? Maybe we can make a test at the beginning of 2018.

 

I like the idea, but potentially could mean even more work for the contest manager

[tuniscof 152]

 

 

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[bestmen 2,808]

LOL i don't believe on these results

 

 they predicted evreything right