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Bob2112
| Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 11:49 pm
Deadpool Rules for Survivor All-Stars Playing the Deadpool is very simple. You just make the following picks each week:Reward Winner Immunity Winner Vote Off Stay On Understanding the scoring in the Deadpool is not as simple and many people do not even try to figure it out.
Scoring Your weekly score is a combination of Play Bonus, Correct Picks, Correct Pick Bonus, Negative Points and Weekly Scaling factor. Each of these is explained in detail below. I have posted some sample results from Survivor VII - Week 4 in the results thread so everyone can see some real numbers and ask specific questions about the computations. Play Bonus The play bonus is designed to encourage players to make their picks early every week. It has been dramatically redesigned from Survivor VII and will greatly impact your weekly score. All times will be listed as Pacific time, which is the same as the timestamp which is displayed on each post. The final cutoff for picks will be at the start of the show on the East coast. All days assume the show is on Thursday evening and will be adjusted accordingly when the show is on another night:
Pick Before 9:00 PM PST on Monday | 80 points | Pick Before 9:00 PM PST on Tuesday | 40 points | Pick Before 9:00 PM PST on Wednesday | 0 points | Pick Before Start of Show | -40 points | Forget To Pick | -80 points | Correct Picks Every correct answer earns you a base number of points:
Correct Reward Pick | 25 points | Correct Immunity Pick | 25 points | Correct Voted Off Pick | 50 points | Correct Stay On Pick | 15 points | Correct Pick Bonus In addition to the base points for getting a pick correct, you will also earn bonus points that will be calculated based on the percentage of players who also had the same correct pick. Basically this means that you will get more bonus points for being correct with a less popular pick (riskier) than you will with a more popular pick (safer). The bonuses are computed as follows:
Reward Bonus | (100 points minus the percentage of players who made the same pick) divided by 5 | Immunity Bonus | (100 points minus the percentage of players who made the same pick) divided by 5 | Voted Off Bonus | 100 points minus the percentage of players who made the same pick | Stay On Bonus | (100 points minus the percentage of players who made the same pick) divided by 10 | Negative Points If you get a pick wrong, you may get zero points or you may get negative points. The negative points will be for picks that are opposite of what actually happened. For example, if the person you pick for immunity ends up getting voted off, you will get negative points. If your immunity picks does not get immunity but is not voted off, then you will just get a zero. Many of the negative penalties come into play after the merge when immunity is on an individual level. Here are all the negative points possible:
Immunity pick Voted Off | -25 points (only applicable after tribes merge) | Vote Off pick wins Immunity | -15 points (only applicable after tribes merge) | Stay On pick is Voted Off | -50 points | Weekly Scaling factor The scaling factor is used to make the points in the later weeks of the game worth more than in the first weeks of the game. This allows players a chance to get a feel for the game without falling too far behind with no chance to catch up. Your total points for the week will be divided by a number to determine your scaled points for the week. In week 1 your points will be divided by 13. In week 2 your points will be divided by 12. In week 3 your points will be divided by 11. This pattern will continue until the scaling factor reaches 1 and then it will remain at 1. In the Week 4 example posted in the results section, you will see that the Week Total column is divided by 10 to generate the value found in the Week Total Scaled column. The first player scored 169.571 for the week which was scaled to 16.957 for the actual weeks score.
Who Won Reward, Who Won Immunity, Who Is Out and Who Is In???? One thing we can count on is that some twist will come along and make determining the correct picks difficult and confusing. The following sections will attempt to identify how I will determine the correct answer for each pick. These methods may not be perfect, but at least everyone will know the process ahead of time. If something new comes up, we'll deal with it the best we can. Reward Winner Pre-merge: The correct answer will be the team that actually wins the reward. If more than one team can win the reward, then there will be multiple correct answers. If the winning team is allowed to share or give away the reward, the correct answer will only be the original team or teams that won the reward. Post-merge: The correct answer will be the person or persons that actually win the reward. If the winner is allowed to share or give away the reward, the correct answer will only be the person or persons that actually won the reward. If there is no reward challenge, then there will be no correct answer. Immunity Winner Pre-merge: The correct answer will be the team that actually wins immunity. If more than one team can win immunity, then there will be multiple correct answers. If the winning team is allowed to give away immunity, the correct answer will still be the original team or teams that won immunity. Post-merge: The correct answer will be the person that actually wins immunity. If more than one person can win immunity, then there will be multiple correct answers. If the winning person(s) is allowed to give away immunity, the correct answer will still be the original person or persons that won immunity. A player that is given immunity (i.e. booted players return and are given immunity for one week) will not be considered a correct answer. If nobody wins immunity, there will be no correct answer. Voted Off Winner The correct answer will be any player that is gone at the end of that episode, regardless of whether they were voted out, injured, quit or were disqulified. If no players are gone at the end of a weeks episode (like the 2 part episode in week 7 of Survivor VII), then there will be no correct pick for vote off that week. In the event of a ghost tribe (as in Survivor VII) where some members are voted back in the game and the others are not, those ghost tribe members not voted back in will not be considered as voted out. Stay On Winner The correct answer will be any player that is in the game at the end of the weeks episode. This will include players that were previously voted out and have then earned a chance to get back in the game. If there is something like the ghost tribe that wins a chance to put players back in, but those players are not picked that episode, then all members of the ghost tribe will be considered back in the game for that episode. If only some are voted back in, then only those players will be considered to be correct answers.
Team Play Playing on a team is an option, but not a requirement. First and foremost, everyone is playing as an individual player and will only make one set of picks each week. The teams add another dimesion to the game and many people seem to enjoy being on one or more teams. There are only a few basic rules for teams:- You may be on multiple teams, but you may not be on a team with the same player more than once.
- You only post one set of picks. These picks are used for all of your teams.
- Teams must have exactly 5 players.
- If you are late with your picks or miss a week, your team may vote to replace you prior to that weeks episode. Replacement stays in effect until the team votes to change it.
- Team score is the sum of all 5 player's individual scores for a given week.
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Bob2112
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06-12-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:08 pm
Rule Update #1: Since Survivor has been getting more creative with its twists, the potential exists for no person or team to be the correct answer to any of the questions. To allow Deadpool players to be more aggressive with their picks, you are allowed to specify Nobody for any of your picks. If you pick Nobody and there is a correct answer, you will be get -10 points.
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Bob2112
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06-12-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 11:22 am
Here's another attempt to explain how the correct answers will be determined each week. Please ask if there are any questions.
Correct Answers For Tribal Reward When the Reward Challenge is between tribes, the correct answers will include all teams that earn a reward based on the challenge, even if these rewards are not of equal value. Tribes that are given a reward after the challenge is over (like the sharing of the fire making supplies in episode 1) will not be considered a correct answer. Sometimes there will be a reward for second place and other times there will not. Since Chapera has already received their 3 clues, it may be possible that they do not receive a reward if they come in second place, but any of the other 2 tribes might receive another clue as reward if htey come in second. Correct Answers For Individual Reward When the Reward Challenge is between individuals, the correct answers will include all individuals that earn a reward based on the challenge, even if these rewards are not of equal value. Individuals that are given a reward after the challenge is over (like when Jeff says pick someone to come along) will not be considered a correct answer. Sometimes there is no Reward Challenge when the tribes merge into one tribe, but they may get food to celebrate. If there is no challenge, then the correct answer for that week will be Nobody. Correct Answers For Tribal Immunity If there is no Immunity Challenge, then the correct answer is Nobody. If there is an Immunity Challenge, then the correct answer will be all tribes that earn a piece of the immunity idol. If someone decides to quit the game after the Immunity Challenge has take place, the results of the Immunity Challenge will still stand, even if there is no tribal council. Correct Answers For Individual Immunity If there is no Immunity Challenge, then the correct answer is Nobody. If there is an Immunity Challenge, then the correct answer will be the player that earn immunity. If they decide to give out more than one immunity, then there could be multiple correct answers. A person receiving immunity as a gift will not be considered a correct answer. If there is no tribal council because a player quits, but the Immunity Challenge has already take place, then the results of the Immunity Challenge will stand.
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Bob2112
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06-12-2002
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 1:04 pm
All Encompassing Rule Make whatever picks you want, using whatever descriptions you need, to communicate all your possible answers for the 4 categories of: Reward, Immunity, Voted Off and Stays On. I will watch the show, do my best to pick which answers I will consider correct and then I will post the results. The only corrections I will make are to data entry errors for your picks. This rule supercedes any previous rules that contradict this rule.
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Bob2112
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06-12-2002
| Monday, March 15, 2004 - 10:04 pm
BONUS POINT SCHEDULE CHANGE OK, forget the shifting of the bonus schedule. I will just use the following schedule (that has been used every week except the first week) regardless of when the show is on.
Pick Before 9:00 PM PST on Monday | 80 points | Pick Before 9:00 PM PST on Tuesday | 40 points | Pick Before 9:00 PM PST on Wednesday | 0 points | Pick Before Start of Show | -40 points | Forget To Pick | -80 points | NOTE: There will be no bonus for the final show, since it will likely be on the Sunday following the last Thursday show and that would mean you'd have to vote that Thursday night.
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