hong

rad dude. thanks for being a hero!

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Very cool of you to give so much!
+10 karma to you!

Thank you so much for that donation, hong! I was bowled over by it!

Just seen your donation. You are a man of real class. Many thanks.

Yes, each session everyone that finishes higher than 10th gets a number of points. And we keep a running tally of points and the winner at the end of the season is the person that has the highest avg of points/games played. There is a minimum of 8 out of 24 games required to qualify for the player of the year. We use the average of the points accumulated divided by number of games played. This is skewing in favor of the people who play nearest the minimum number of games.

Points are awarded as follows:

Place Finished Points

1st Place 120 pts

2nd Place 100 pts

3rd Place 80 pts

4th Place 60 pts

5th Place 50 pts

6th Place 40 pts

7th Place 30 pts

8th Place 20 pts

9th Place 10 pts

Hong,

Seeing as your a statistician, I was wondering if i could ask your advice on something non-D&D related that has to do with statistics. I belong to a poker league. We play 24 events over the course of a year. People play a varying number of events. Only one person plays every event (because we play at his house). We are trying to figure out a formula to decide player of the year, but we keep running into statistical hurdles. Doing it one way practically guarantees that the host cannot win, and doing it another way virtually guarantees he will win. How do we do something like this that will relatively fair, especially to the host?

If you need more specifics, as I am sure you do I will be glad to provide any data needed.

Much appreciation for any help you are willing to provide.

eleran