on 2014-08-17 9:29 Darren Addy wrote
There was a runaway winner in Round 2, so it is possible according to
the rules above, that the photographer who took that Round 2 shot
could be the eventual winner, even if he only got approximately 50% of
the votes my photo got in Round 3. And it is likely that has happened,
but since names aren't put to the photos yet, I'm not sure which one
is his.
it seems you can put names to photos by clicking on them from the galleries
linked from the poll results pages; based on that, i looked at the top 5 in
the two latter rounds (couldn't find numbers for round 1), and the two sets
don't intersect at all; here are the weighted scores from those two rounds
round 3 ( n / 102 ):
9 cheeky: 102 -> 1.0
30 s christ: 93 -> .912
12 harry: 61 -> .598
6 buhlman: 59 -> .578
22 pentor: 54 -> .529
round 2 ( n / 102 * 0.5 ):
4 bondezire: 93 -> .5
5 bonnieb: 63 -> .339
31 ve2cj1: 44 -> .237
38 atrej: 40 -> .215
2 alcazar: 36 -> .194
(50 cheeky: 23 -> 0.124)
so if i've got that right, then the maximum score of 0.2 in the first round
wouldn't possibly put anyone over your score from rounds 2 & 3; don't get
your hopes up, i did this mainly to demystify the calculation
I'm no mathamatician, but there is something that seems very illogical
to me about the formula (in addition to the "anomaly" I've pointed
out, above.)
by anomaly do you mean the large number of votes for the round 2 winner?
perhaps they simply did what you did, but more successfully: asked a lot of
people to vote for their image … as we all do sometimes, you were willing to
set aside your unease at the "fairness" of the competition because the
potential reward was high; i don't mean to imply that by participating you
forfeit your right to object to the terms
That requires
calculating all 32 3rd round scores, for ALL 3 rounds. They made
themselves a lot of work, if nothing else.
not a lot of work, just dump the results in a spreadsheet, write one simple
calculation and apply it to all the rows; i did a few by hand rather quickly
without the benefit of tabular data
I'll keep you posted. But I wanted to sincerely thank all of you
PDMLers who are also PF members who voted. THANK YOU!
you're welcome, i did vote for yours; good luck (if luck is what it is)
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