[PREDICTION CONTESTS] Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,210]

I have an idea regarding the prediction contests. Maybe we can introduce the "Winners of the day" bonuses.

 

Users are ranked by points they've won in a single day of a contest. So for example we look at the first day of the current handball contest:

 

Gianlu33 - 88 (10)

heywoodu - 85 (5)

MCMXC - 81 (3)

bestmen - 77

ady48 - 75

...

 

Every winner of the day gets 10 pts, 2nd best gets 5 pts and 3rd best gets 3 pts. These points are summed at the end of the contest and they go straight to the general standings for the season. These bonuses might encourage lower ranked users to be more interested in the later stages of the contest.

 

Obviously it doesn't have to be 10-5-3, it can be set up differently. However, with the 10-5-3 system we would have the following current bonus points from the handball contest.

 

Spoiler

bestmen	33
Crolympic	31
Pavlo	23
vlad	20
hckosice	20
mihamiha	20
Ufilov	18
ady48	16
Agger	16
rybak	15
Dolby	15
SteveParker	10
Gianlu33	10
Dunadan	10
africaboy	10
dcro	10
heywoodu	8
amen09	8
Henry_Leon	5
MCMXC	3
vinipereira	3
wpwells	0
Federer91	0
tuniscof	0
titicow	0

 

[tuniscof 152]

 

 

Provisional Standing after Day 13 (Quarterfinals Part 1) available here

[tuniscof 152]

 

 

Provisional Standing after Day 15 (Bronze Medal Match) available here

Great pick from @vinipereira the only one who got a perfect prediction for Bronze Medal Game.

Edited January 30, 2017 by tuniscof

[Pavlo 144]

sure i new France will win but i was 4th (almost all the time) so decided to take a gamble with Norway win, this was a great contest, i`m very happy but who likes being 4th ;).

 

Congrats (probably) to Romania, Algeria and Poland i hope

[bestmen 2,830]

for my part sure i lost the Silver at the last round, i voted agaisnt what i felt  

if Dunadan  predicted 7 for france , i'll lose the bronze too

[tuniscof 152]

 

 

Semifinals prediction design available here

[tuniscof 152]

 

 

Provisional Standing after Day 14 (Quarterfinals Part 2) available here

Well played @Crolympic  @Federer91  @SteveParker and @thepharoah  for their perfect prediction of the day .

Edited January 30, 2017 by tuniscof

[tuniscof 152]

 

 

Final Standing available here.

 

 

 

 

Ufilov

ady48

bestmen

 

Congratulation to our first winner of the year ady48 and Romania for a deserved Gold Medal !

It was a big battle for top spot since Day 3 between ady48, Ufilov and Crolympic, joined on Day 7 by bestmen.

Unfortunately for him and Croatia, Crolympic missed the round of 16 , and dropped from top spot to the middle of the table losing a big chance for a medal  and leaving the lead to ady48 who secured his position until the finish.

 

There was another battle between Ufilov and bestmen for 2nd and 3rd spot, which was decided on the last day when Ufilov had better picks than the algerian ! so Congratulations to Silver Medalist Ufilov and Poland who proved once again how good he is with predictions almost never leaving top 4 except on Day 1 (7th place) and Day 8 (5th place).

Congratulations also goes to bestmen and Algeria who showed a great talent with his picks : he made 12 perfect prediction all tournament long and he is the only one to make a double perfect prediction for Semifinals , good job bestmen  ! (we'll see about your bonus idea  ) 

 

Italian Dunadan clinches 4th spot from Polish rybak who had a great tournament always being in top 5.
 

Great overall result for team Poland with all three players in top 10! though it could have been an impressive top 5 finish for them if only Pavlo didn't drop at the last day (if he didn't predict Norway to be new World Champions )  

 

Unfortunately some players left the contest  I hope that's not a bad sign here 

Thank you all who participated for this first contest of the year even if the number wasn't that large  we can certainly do better than 25 players for the coming contests .

 

For my part I tried to do my best to make this contest come true  even if it came a little late, I hope you enjoyed it!

See you soon for another contest !

 

Now please stand up for the national anthem of Romania !

 

[Pavlo 144]

It was all or nothing tactics with Norway win ;), i decided to behave like an athlete - "only medals count, go for gold". I predicted final against myself. Congrats to Ady, Ufilov and Bestmen.

 

I`ve lost bronze/silver with Qatar-Slovenia, Croatian penalty with Norway or/and 1st day if i made 1st predictions after the start of 1st matches

[bestmen 2,830]

3 hours ago, tuniscof said:

 

 

 

Provisional Standing after Day 14 (Quarterfinals Part 2) available here

 

thx, plzz fixe the count of thepharao he had 51,25  + 1,25 = 52,5 not 63,75 as you posted

 

and i invite everybody to count by themselves maybe there are other mistakes

 

 

 

 

Edited January 30, 2017 by bestmen