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Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 1:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
I am planning to do some sort of game this season, but it might be a little different simply because it's a different format (10 teams, apparently fewer non-elims, which leads me to believe there might be some two-ep legs)...I have a couple of ideas in mind, so I'll post something around Labor Day and we'll see what happens...

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - 12:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Yay! Count me in!

Lorie
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08-29-2003

Friday, August 19, 2005 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lorie a private message Print Post    
I'll be there Wilson!

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Friday, August 19, 2005 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
I'm in!

Polypody
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04-16-2003

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Polypody a private message Print Post    
me too!

Luvmom
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10-17-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 5:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
same here!

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Friday, September 02, 2005 - 7:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
OK.... here is how this is basically going to work this year...

You'll pick one team each week. Based on the teams position, you'll earn points...the trick is you're going to be sharing the points that that team earns with every other person who picked that team. So there is some strategy in picking your team, because you could score more points by being the only person to pick a low-ranked team then one of a lot of people picking a high-ranked one. The same principle is with the bonus questions....you'll split the points with all the players who pick the right answers. Now to make things a little fairer, there will be a cap of the number of points a single person can get for any one question or ranking (so if you are the only person to pick a team that came in first, you won't be able to completely run away with it, but you will still be rewarded--and the other side is you'll get a certain amount of points regardless of how many people picked the team)

Here's an example of how this would work: (these may not be the final point values for team rankings)

Participation: 20

Rankings:

1st- 200 (Min 20-Max 100 for a single player)
2nd- 160 (Min 16-Max 80)
3rd- 120 (Min 12-Max 60)
4th- 100 (Min 10-Max 50)
5th- 75 (Min 8-Max 38)
6th- 60 (Min 6-Max 30)
7th- 50 (Min 5-Max 25)
8th- 45 (Min 5-Max 23)
9th- 40 (Min 4-Max 20)
10th- 35 (Min 4-Max 18)

BQ 1-200 pts (Min 10-Max 100)
BQ 2-150 pts (Min 8-Max 75)

So basically, for rankings, You'll get between 10-50% of the points available for the team that week, and for BQ's 5-50% (of course the values will go up as the season goes along)

So using this, say you pick the 4th place team with 3 others, and you get the 1st BQ right with 9 others, and the 2nd BQ right with 11 others.

Scoring would be:

Participation: 20
Ranking: 25 (4th place:100pts/4 people who picked it)
BQ1: 20 (200pts/10 correct answerers)
BQ2: 13 (150pts/12 correct answerers=12.5, rounded up-All decimals will be rounded up)

Total: 78pts (20+25+20+13)


I know it looks a little complex, but it's basically you want the team you pick to get as high a ranking as possible and/or be picked by as few people as possible, and the same thing with the bonus questions.

If there are questions, please go ahead and ask, since we've got a couple of weeks.

Lancecrossfire
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07-13-2000

Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lancecrossfire a private message Print Post    
I'm in!

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Friday, September 02, 2005 - 9:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Ditto

Don413ny
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06-01-2005

Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Don413ny a private message Print Post    
I'll play.

Fiat
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10-07-2004

Monday, September 12, 2005 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Fiat a private message Print Post    
Me too.

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Monday, September 12, 2005 - 12:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
OK....I'm going to post the stuff now, so you'll have plenty of time to think about it...

WEEK 1:

Participation-10pts

Ranking pts (remember, these are split among those who pick the team in that spot, subject to the limits)

1-250 (min 25-max 125)
2-200 (min 20-max 100)
3-175 (min 18-max 88)
4-150 (min 15-max 75)
5-125 (min 13-max 63)
6-100 (min 10-max 50)
7-80 (min 8-max 40)
8-60 (min 6-max 30)
9-50 (min 5-max 25)
10-40 (min 4-max 20)



BQ's (same thing, points split among correct answers, subjuect to the limits):

1-True or False: There will be a Yield this episode. (150pts-min 15 max 75)

2-The team that comes in first will be: (200 pts-min 20 max 100)
majority female (there sre 3 teams)
majority male (there are 4 teams)
evenly split (there are 3 teams)

3-True or false: the leg will END in the US. (150 pts-min 15 max 75)

Polypody
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04-16-2003

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 10:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Polypody a private message Print Post    
Wilson....can you explain to this dummy here what the questions are?

Are we picking ONE team or the order of teams in the first part of the questions?

Thanks

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
You pick just one team pody....either one you think will do well OR one you think no one else will pick, so you'd get a bigger share of the points the team earns...so there is some strategy there.

as to the BQ's:

1-the answer is true if there's a Yield offered, even if it's not used by anyone (we do know there are Yields this season because of press information).

2-is asking what the gender breakdown of the team that ends the leg first will be...for your information, 3 teams have more women then men, 4 teams have more men then women, and 3 teams have 2 men and 2 women.


3-Is true if the pitstop of the leg ends somewhere in the US.


Polypody
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04-16-2003

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Polypody a private message Print Post    
OK Wilson Thanks a lot!

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
We will play

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
I'll play, even if I don't have the brain capacity to figure out all the rules right now... :-)

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 8:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
if you get this weeks TV Guide, you for sure will get one of the answers to a BQ correct...I'm not changing it this time, but may if it occurs again..

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
That puts those in Canada at a disadvantage LOL...

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 7:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
well Yankee, just follow the way the others are doing for that question (hint: NY to PA)

Polypody
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04-16-2003

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Polypody a private message Print Post    
OK I will be brave and jump in here even though I don't know what I am doing..

1. Godlewski Family

BQ1 True
BQ2 Majority Male
BQ3 True

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
3rd place: Godlewski Family
BQ1 False
BQ2 Majority Male
BQ3 True
Hope we did this right????


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 7:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
First place: Linz siblings

BQ's
1. false
2. majority male
3. true

Lancecrossfire
Animoderator

07-13-2000

Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lancecrossfire a private message Print Post    
9th place--Weaver family

BBQ1: false
BBQ2: majority male
BBQ3: true

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
You don't need to predict where the team you pick will finish...just pick a team (you'll score for the team no matter where they finish-obviously, the higher the better). Otherwise you're good.

team pick-Gahgan family
1-false
2-even
3-true