[Gauss]

Ok, in the next post I show how this week's results would look with the total error as the first tiebreaker. It does look to me like a more fair metric (even though it makes my predictions skill look even more ridiculously bad!). I'd appreciate if more people wrote to tell me which metric they prefer, and if they'd like to change the scoring system.

As for those predicting the wrong winner, I prefer to give them a penalty than not giving points at all. I explained my reasons in the rules thread.

A couple more things. Hank 91 forgot to send in his prediction, but he sent me proof that he'd done one before the game started, so he will be added to the "official" scoreboard.

Also, the limit of 8,000 characters per post is killing me! I've already told Yvonne that with all the formatting tags, tables with more than 30 participants just don't fit in 8,000 characters. I hope we can find a solution (perhaps if everyone promised to write posts shorter than 8,000 characters they'd increase the limit ;)).

[Gauss]

Ok, in the next post I show how this week's results would look with the total error as the first tiebreaker. It does look to me like a more fair metric (even though it makes my predictions skill look even more ridiculously bad!). I'd appreciate if more people wrote to tell me which metric they prefer, and if they'd like to change the scoring system.

As for those predicting the wrong winner, I prefer to give them a penalty than not giving points at all. I explained my reasons in the rules thread.

A couple more things. Hank 91 forgot to send in his prediction, but he sent me proof that he'd done one before the game started, so he will be added to the "official" scoreboard.

Also, the limit of 8,000 characters per post is killing me! I've already told Yvonne that with all the formatting tags, tables with more than 30 participants just don't fit in 8,000 characters. I hope we can find a solution (perhaps if everyone promised to write posts shorter than 8,000 characters they'd increase the limit ;)).