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Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 998
So how does this fit in with dat top option. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
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Dat bottom option wins again ...I think. --- "So cold. I am always by your side." "There ain't no gettin' off of this train we on!" |
Here was an interesting topic I saw on a private board: Today's poll is a Keynesian beauty contest RockMFR 5 | Posted 6/13/2011 12:08:45 AM | message detail | quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest I voted "The second one". Looks like I'm right so far! Would be very interesting to see the results if this poll was ran again tomorrow. Very interesting link that RockMFR 5 linked to. --- Luster Soldier - Popular at school. ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ |
I laughed when i saw this poll. I'm a firm believer in "dat top option," but the way this poll is constructed made me think that "the first one" would be the most popular, even though it's the second option. So i therefore voted for "the second one" which actually turns out to be winning, so i guess a lot more people took a step back and had the same train of thought as I did. "The second one" is actually the 4th option though, and "the fourth one" is doing abysmally. Argh, this hurts my brain. Is it strange that I want a poll with only two generic options (Top and Bottom) to see how that turned out? >_> --- Tofa7 - LoZ-LoD | Hardcore "Thank you, thank you, no applause necessary, just send money..." |
Dammit! I chose "the second one" also. It seems to be the trap all the "smart" people took who tried to think it through. Little did they know all the actual super smart people actually thought of this and took an extra step! |
From: pjbasis | #105 Like me! Oh ho ho ho No, seriously, I just chose the 4th option because 4 is my favorite number and it has never failed me. Still good track record! --- http://img.imgcake.com/leonpngpe.png http://img.imgcake.com/squalloweenpngem.png |
Is it strange that I want a poll with only two generic options (Top and Bottom) to see how that turned out? >_> I'd rather have a poll with two options that both say the same exact thing, just to see which one ends up winning the poll. I think this is what the poll should be: If this poll has two identical options, which one would you choose? This option This option --- Luster Soldier - Popular at school. ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ |
What
we need is to run Link vs. Cloud, every day, for a year. We'll
alternate whether Link is the top option or Cloud is the top option, so
that we manage to have enough polls to see both arrangements on all the
days of the week, in all the months of the year. Of course, even this
would not be perfect, as we could never run the ideal polls of having
Link on top and Cloud on top on exactly the same day, but it should give
us enough data to approximate quite closely the effect of the top
option. --- 90s games > 00s games |
The
upcoming poll (in about 3 hours from now) will be "Which professional
sport do you most closely follow?". That will be an interesting poll,
with interesting trends since American Football will bomb the night vote
and Soccer will do well in that time period. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
That will be very interesting, I wonder if American Football will pull off the win with the America vote. |
I'm
not even sure if American Football will be capable of winning over "I
don't follow any sports" in the US. In that poll from back in 2004, "I
don't follow any sports" was the overall winner of that poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
I wonder how things like ice hockey or even basketball will perform considering that the playoffs are going on/just finished. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Now heres an interesting poll. I wonder how far American Football will drop over night Probably biggest surprise to me is hockey. I would have never taken that over baseball or basketball --- http://i56.tinypic.com/207um12.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
At the freeze, hockey is over 50% in Canada. |
Hahaha,
I figured that American Football wouldn't be able to beat "I don't
follow any sports" in the US. It will probably remain that way. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
*A
lot of people in Canada are depressed over the Canucks losing and are
probably gone straight to bed. Wait until morning/after school. --- "Calling Pokemon RBY a top 10 game was the most insane contest jibba-jabba ever Woe unto he who sig bets with the near-invincible Lord High creativename |
Probably biggest surprise to me is hockey. Game 6 of the finals ended about an hour ago, plus Canada will keep it high. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Hockey
board vote is slowly going away and with soccer getting a boost at
night we could have a decent four-way between
Baseball/Basketball/Hockey/Soccer. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
The amount of people not interested in sports has increased by about 5% since this poll was run back in 2004. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Hockey beat baseball and basketball last time this poll was held. Which was right around playoff time as well. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest! |
Big question: How will Samus and Duke Nukem be affected by their disappointing releases? --- Currently Playing - Tetris, Civilization IV Next in Queue - Resident Evil 4, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Metal Gear Solid |
Samus stays the same while Duke gets a small boost. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Samus falls out of the Noble Nine completely and Duke takes her place. --- Support Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers) for Character Battle IX! http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9302/banner5morrigan2.jpg |
Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 6/13/2011 12:05:05 AM | message detail | quote Planning on tracking trends? I wonder if the 4th option taking the lead will drag up the 5th option from people who look at the results before voting. I finally completed my trends and all of the options were pretty static across every single hour of the day. So there weren't really any trends in yesterday's poll. Today's poll will have definite trends for sure. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Other M hardly even sold. It won't affect anything. |
pjbasis posted... Other M hardly even sold. It won't affect anything. This. Also the game did pretty well in the GOTY polls in relation to its abnormally low critical acclaim for the franchise and the fact that a Mario was in the same poll. ...speaking of Other M, what's the weakest game in the Game of the Decade field which would defeat it? We already established that it would win against Shenmue, so what's the next target? Silent Hill 2? Civilization IV? DEUS EX? Hell, could Other M soak up enough anti-votes to break 40% on something like Modern Warfare 2? These are all silly questions, but I felt like it anyway. --- Currently Playing - Tetris, Civilization IV Next in Queue - Resident Evil 4, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Metal Gear Solid |
Okay, who would you pick to win these matches: God of War II vs. God of War III Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas vs. Red Dead Redemption Castlevania: Symphony of the Night vs. Chrono Cross Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare vs. Final Fantasy XIII Half-Life 2 vs. Shadow of the Colossus Super Metroid vs. Okami Uncharted 2: Among Thieves vs. Super Mario Galaxy 2 --- Currently Playing - Tetris, Civilization IV Next in Queue - Resident Evil 4, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Metal Gear Solid |
God of War III (far more epic) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (I don't trust RDR) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Final Fantasy XIII (never take a FPS over FF) Half-Life 2 (but I'm not sure after SotC run in the GotD) Super Metroid (never played okami so... but not against Metroid) Super Mario Galaxy 2 (I think) |
I agree that RDR isn't trustworthy, but...well, it's against GTA. >_> I have an awful feeling Chrono Cross could win that match. It shouldn't be the favorite or anything, I'd pick against it even without bias, but it got 33% on Majora's Mask. Symphony of the Night got 33.5% on Mario 64, which would be good, but then it got 26.6% next round despite Yoshi's Island in the poll. (And 27.6% on Chrono Trigger) Add in lol 4-ways and an upset wouldn't surprise me. It might anger or sadden me, but not surprise me. Okami might have a shot at Super Metroid in a night match. It did get ~42% on Metroid Prime in a night match, and could have boosted marginally from MvC3. Day match or 24 hour match and it loses, though. |
Trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tCChV2JMvG5sS8NMLq7J4Mg&gid=1 Baseball did best in the Power Hour and worst in the night vote and early morning vote. Basketball had a good Power Hour and SNV, but had a bad morning vote. Football had a good Power Hour, late morning vote, and ASV/SNV. Football did worst at night and in the early morning. Hockey had a good Power Hour and ASV/SNV, and was worst in the night vote. Soccer had a terrible Power Hour, ASV, and SNV and dominated the night vote and morning vote. Other was best at night thanks to Australia. "No sports" did best at night and the early morning and did worst in the ASV/SNV. In yesterday's poll, Football (American) reached a maximum lead of 1339 on Soccer at 3:31 AM. After that point, Soccer managed to cut about 500 votes off that lead to get Football's lead down to 822 at 7:47 AM. After that point, Football gained control again and increased its lead for the rest of the poll. Canada had 51.37% of all the Hockey votes The US had 94.23% of all the Football votes The US had 92.74% of all the Baseball votes The US had 77.09% of all the Basketball votes Football and Baseball were almost entirely dependent upon the US for most of its votes. At least Basketball had a decent amount of support (mostly in Asia) outside of the US. --- Luster Soldier - Popular at school. ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ |
AxemRedRanger posted... I have an awful feeling Chrono Cross could win that match. It shouldn't be the favorite or anything, I'd pick against it even without bias, but it got 33% on Majora's Mask. Symphony of the Night got 33.5% on Mario 64, which would be good, but then it got 26.6% next round despite Yoshi's Island in the poll. (And 27.6% on Chrono Trigger) Add in lol 4-ways and an upset wouldn't surprise me. It might anger or sadden me, but not surprise me. This. Okami might have a shot at Super Metroid in a night match. It did get ~42% on Metroid Prime in a night match, and could have boosted marginally from MvC3. Day match or 24 hour match and it loses, though. Or Super Metroid could get bailed out with the morning vote. --- Currently Playing - Tetris, Civilization IV Next in Queue - Resident Evil 4, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Metal Gear Solid |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4371®ion=CA What's up with Canada having a unusually high percentage of people without a cell phone? That's unusual compared to most other developed countries having over 90% cell phone ownership. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Well one thing is that there is bad to no reception once you leave the main cities. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
hey stats whats up |
Well one thing is that there is bad to no reception once you leave the main cities. That might be true, but that's more of an issue farther up north (especially in the 3 territories). I would assume most Canadians at least live close enough to a major city to get decent to good reception. And most Canadians wouldn't be living in the northern part of the main provinces (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec), which is where you would get bad or no reception up there. And a lot of Canada's population is concentrated in the southern part of the country, close to the US border. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Cell
phone towers are being built outside the main cities, but those are
pretty new so few people have made the switch. Also about 66% of the
population lives on 10% of the land while everyone else is scattered
over this huge country so it isn't hard to imagine from a business
perspective why parts of the country gets no/bad reception. We also have the problem of cell phones being very expensive due to very few cell phone companies. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Bump --- Pokemon VGC2011 NW Regional - Top 8 Hopefully, we'll meet in Indianapolis... |
Still
no word of a contest.......come on, Bacon. We can finish nominations
and bracketmaking in time for a July 5th contest start after the
holiday! --- 90s games > 00s games |
So
I was playing Board 8 Sports Trivia tonight, and afterward Dr. Football
mentioned the possibility of maybe running a GameFAQs Contest Trivia
game. It would be done in an AIM chatroom (for those of you who don't
know how Board 8 Sports Trivia is run). I was wondering if anyone's
interested in the idea of participating in such a thing? I could explain
how the trivia game works in a bit more detail if anyone's actually
interested in it. --- Support Barret Wallace (Final Fantasy VII) for Character Battle IX! http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3834/banner1barret.jpg |
Duke boost --- "With Harry, it's cool. We don't speak a lot and he doesn't care if I smile or if I know who the next team we play is." - Benoit Assou-Ekotto |
I really need to get on AIM one of these days. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Sure, I would definitely be interested! --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest! |
Oh right, I forgot nobody reads the stats topic during the offseason LOL --- "Hold on a minute! That testimony stinks!" "Witness! You can't just say 'Hello' and expect us to get anywhere! I want you to testify!" |
I have been lurking here a lot actually --- "oh my god oh my god a spider just crawled INTO MY KEYBOARD" -pxlated "It just wants some web access." - Ness26 |
Today's poll is exactly like this poll from 2 years ago: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3578 The only difference is the wording of the question. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
-LusterSoldier- posted... Today's poll is exactly like this poll from 2 years ago: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3578 The only difference is the wording of the question. 76% played it on genesis in 07 66% played it on genesis in 09 56% played it on genesis in 11 The Genesis is just dying in terms of playership here --- http://i56.tinypic.com/207um12.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
It's taking ten days just to fill one page of this topic. --- Wylvane Guru Contest Winner Black Turtle is a wonderful user. |
Although that's mostly because of a lack of interesting polls lately. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Looking
at the results, Sonic's playrate is the highest in the U.S. and the
U.K., which isn't really surprising to anyone. Canada's a little bit
lower, but not much. Everywhere else though, it's a good bit lower, Asia
especially. --- "Hold on a minute! That testimony stinks!" "Witness! You can't just say 'Hello' and expect us to get anywhere! I want you to testify!" |
