March Madness Grading Tournament- Seeding Round.

[Shark]

Looks like we are going to have a full field this year, so in order to allow for a wider diversity of team records which are more reflective of grading accuracy, the original scoring post has been modified as follows:

 

Spot on= 3 wins

Within .5= 2 wins

Not within .5 = 1 loss

Not within 1 = 2 losses

Bonus= The third spot on grade will be granted 1 bonus win, fourth= 2 bonus wins, fifth through tenth= 3 bonus wins.

 

Someone explain the bonus to me. Is it cumulative? Does it mean:

 

A) 5 bullseyes = 1 (for the third) + 2 (for the fourth) + 3 (for the fifth) = 6 bonus wins

 

or

 

B) 5 bullseyes = 3 bonus wins

 

 

I assumed it was cumulative (option A). But I suppose it could be open to interpretation...

 

Sounds correct to me. (thumbs u

[Nostalgic Attic]

bonus is cumulative

[mrlatko]

As far as I can tell, I'm 9-11. That's pretty terrible. I think I'm still using the last grading contest rules and bumping things up too much.

 

No Nik bump on these books!

[Boboset]

I can't wait to see the brackets and what seed I end up as.

[mrlatko]

Scoring question above 9.0:

 

Rules say 1 loss if not within 0.5 and 2 losses if not within 1

 

If I guessed a 9.2 and the book was actually a 9.4, I was off by 0.2. So what is my score for this book?

 

Am I +2 because I am within 0.5?

[He11blazer]

bonus is cumulative

 

[mrlatko]

bonus is cumulative

 

 

Aren't you disqualified because you won a grading contest in the last 3 months?

[He11blazer]

bonus is cumulative

 

 

Aren't you disqualified because you won a grading contest in the last 3 months?

 

The only way to go is down

[Reno McCoy]

bonus is cumulative

 

 

Aren't you disqualified because you won a grading contest in the last 3 months?

 

The only way to go is down

 

The last time I said that, I got slapped in the face.

[He11blazer]

Scoring question above 9.0:

 

Rules say 1 loss if not within 0.5 and 2 losses if not within 1

 

If I guessed a 9.2 and the book was actually a 9.4, I was off by 0.2. So what is my score for this book?

 

Am I +2 because I am within 0.5?

 

2 wins, right? Because it's within 0.5.

 

What I'm not clear on is does 0.5 become 0.2 once we're over 9.0? If someone guesses 9.0 on a 9.4, do they get:

 

A) 1 loss for being 'not within 0.5' in the sense that they are two grade steps off, and 0.5 means one grade step.

 

or

 

B) 2 wins for being within 0.5 i.e. 8.9 to 9.9

 

I assumed it was A)

[JazzMan]

I assume B. I think we went through this last year and if I recall it was an absolute value - so 0.5 was 0.5 and did not scale for the grades above 9.0.

[Reno McCoy]

Scoring question above 9.0:

 

Rules say 1 loss if not within 0.5 and 2 losses if not within 1

 

If I guessed a 9.2 and the book was actually a 9.4, I was off by 0.2. So what is my score for this book?

 

Am I +2 because I am within 0.5?

 

2 wins, right? Because it's within 0.5.

 

What I'm not clear on is does 0.5 become 0.2 once we're over 9.0? If someone guesses 9.0 on a 9.4, do they get:

 

A) 1 loss for being 'not within 0.5' in the sense that they are two grade steps off, and 0.5 means one grade step.

 

or

 

B) 2 wins for being within 0.5 i.e. 8.9 to 9.9

 

I assumed it was A)

 

I assumed A) as well.

[Nostalgic Attic]

also, don't worry about the order. I am aware of the issue.

[drewincanada]

9-7 record...yowza lowest seed possible.

 

I went with a 9.6 with the Marvel Premier also...must be some hidden flaws and I bet no one got that right.

 

You think that's bad??!

 

I went 8-10.

 

I literally spent 5 minutes on this - 30 seconds per book. Not too smart.

[BlowUpTheMoon]

 

I literally spent 5 minutes on this - 30 seconds per book. Not too smart.

 

I spent the same amount of time and got the same results.

[etanick]

9-7 record...yowza lowest seed possible.

 

I went with a 9.6 with the Marvel Premier also...must be some hidden flaws and I bet no one got that right.

 

You think that's bad??!

 

I went 8-10.

 

I literally spent 5 minutes on this - 30 seconds per book. Not too smart.

 

I spent about the same amount of time since it wasn't elimination round but man oh man, the Marvel Premier and the TOS killed me.

[TheLiamSturgess]

Jesus. Not a single bullseye.

[Jeffro.]

Yikes, I was all over the road and what's up with the MP 23?

[mrlatko]

Scoring question above 9.0:

 

Rules say 1 loss if not within 0.5 and 2 losses if not within 1

 

If I guessed a 9.2 and the book was actually a 9.4, I was off by 0.2. So what is my score for this book?

 

Am I +2 because I am within 0.5?

 

2 wins, right? Because it's within 0.5.

 

What I'm not clear on is does 0.5 become 0.2 once we're over 9.0? If someone guesses 9.0 on a 9.4, do they get:

 

A) 1 loss for being 'not within 0.5' in the sense that they are two grade steps off, and 0.5 means one grade step.

 

or

 

B) 2 wins for being within 0.5 i.e. 8.9 to 9.9

 

I assumed it was A)

 

Sounds like B is correct according to veteran player JazzMan. The 0.5 does not scale down to 0.2 above 9.0, so a 9.0 guess on a 9.4 still gets you +2 wins because you are only 0.4 off.

[Timmay]

 

I literally spent 5 minutes on this - 30 seconds per book. Not too smart.

 

I spent the same amount of time and got the same results.

 

I think I spent about 30 seconds

 

 

 

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