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I didn’t update last weekend, mostly due to the pressing nature of being lazy, so here’s a bumper update of the last fortnight.
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For round four everyone played their joker on France apart from Alex (good call, Alex). For round 5, Dec and Dave picked Ireland, Alex and Ant picked France and I picked Wales. No one took a mulligan on round four so mulligans were automatically assigned for Dave and Ant on round 5 to save them most points leading to a final leaderboard of:
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So, another glorious victory for me. All-in-all I think the jokers badly messed the table aorund this time, the points swings on them were huge, we’ll need to tweak those rules before next time…
Some statistical analysis to follow. Possibly.
Another way of seeing performance so far – the difference of each person’s score compared to the average score on each match.
Google Charts API is pretty sweet, I’ve been messing around with it. In just half an hour of learning you can produce quite nice charts, such as below:
M shows where Mulligans were taken, J shows successful Jokers…
Well the predictions have started fragmenting a bit this week. No one has any love for Wales and their golf-kart stealing inebriation, but the other games are split predictions as are the jokers.
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Dec and I have both used our mulligans, jokers this week are:
Alex, Ant and I – France
Dec and Dave – Scotland
A bit of a shocker this week, and my first wrong prediction in terms of who was gonna win. Ireland were comprehensively spanked. Still, I imagine they can’t feel as bad as the Scots do.
Anyway, the terrible Ireland result has prompted both Dec and I to take our Mulligans. As a result, the standings are:
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* Mulligan used
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Everyone picked England as their joker, everyone has a mulligan available.
So, Engand foxed everyone by picking up most points, which meant that no one got a joker bonus this week. Dec got hammered for backing the Welsh at Twickenham and three people actually ended the first week in positive points.
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Everyone picked Ireland as their joker, everyone has a mulligan available.
A new round with enhanced rules!
Each person puts £10 in.
Winner takes all.
For each game pick a winner and by how many points.
+5 for the right winner
+10 for the exact right points difference
-1 for each points difference out
e.g. England vs Italy guess England win by 10 points.
If England win 23-13 – +15
If England win 23-12 – +4
If England win 23-15 – +4
If England lose 23-13 – -20
Bonus rules:
1 Mulligan: Once throughout the game you can select a result to ignore. This must be nominated within 2 days of the result and cannot be transferred. E.g. if you selected England to beat Italy by 10 pts and England lost 23-13 you’d normally lose 20 pts. If you select this as your Mulligan, you score zero points.
Weekly Jester: Pick the team you think will get the most points that week. If you’re correct, you get the points that team got.
For example, you pick Ireland
Ireland – France – 30-15
England – Wales – 29-12
Italy – Scotland – 6-3
You would get 30 points. If you picked any other team you would get 0 points.
Winner is the one with the most overall points at the end.
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Nice.
