Yeah, it’s not that big a deal here. I was just pointing out that Baker’s way is the way it’s usually done for contests and competitions.
My Death Pool standings are usually so far back that it doesn’t make much difference to me whether you say I’m in 60th place or 48th place. 
IT can do it anyway he chooses. I do it the way I do because that’s how it was done before me. If IT is doing the work he gets to make the rules!
What I always wanted to do was simply not count the entries of people who make their lists with numbers or commentary, and then neglected to change it, even after being asked to. I always did end up including those people in the game but I frowned as I did so.
Not right.
First highest score : 30,000
Second highest score: 30,000
Third highest score: 30,000
Fourth highest score: 28,932
Don’t know how we’ll ever know, but I suspect he fell asleep at the wheel, perhaps after being up all night dealing with the fallout of the indictment.
I knew a guy once who was a part-time small plane pilot for a courier company. He had another job during the day and often looked tired. One night he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed at high speed into the back of an 18-wheeler stopped to make a left turn. The police told his family that he likely fell asleep at the wheel, and that when people do that they tend to stretch out, which often results in their flooring the gas pedal and plowing into something at high speed. A friend who specializes in sleep medicine she said the first thing she thought of when seeing the aftermath of the crash was that he’d fallen asleep at the wheel.
I also know someone who works in Chesapeake’s headquarters and in no way did McClendon seem like the kind of guy who would bail by committing suicide. Not only would it be devastating to his family and employees (he was apparently a much beloved boss), but he was a super-smart, highly competitive guy used to dealing with complex and difficult problems. Plus he had the best of lawyers and half a billion in net worth at his command with which to fight the charges.
McClendon was also a huge booster of Oklahoma City itself and spend a great deal of time and money working to build it into a fun and exciting place to live. He was a booster of the Boy Scouts and he gave generously to numerous charities, invested in numerous restaurants and shopping centers and thousands of acres of land for future development, and was one of the owners and promoters of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team. Plus the new company that he was building after being forced out at Chesapeake was well on its way, having a achieved $5 billion in equity after only one year in business.
All in all, I’m just not buying that with all of that success, and with all of the interesting things that he had going on, he just up and decided to drive into a wall one day after being indicted on charges that he may very well have beaten.
This statement can be used to prove how misguided this way of looking at scores can be.
Let’s say there’s a contest, and five people tie for third, but one person is alone in “fourth” place (ugh, it was painful to type that).
The first place prize is $3,000, second place is $2,000, third place is $1,000 and the fourth place prize is $500.
So, according to you, the two scenarios would be:
Give all of the third place finishers $1,000. That means that instead of the $6,500 they planned to distribute, the organizers of the contest/game/race/whatever have to pay out $10,500. Not gonna happen.
Divide up the third place prize, while giving the “4th place” finisher $500. Now the third place finishers have each won $200 while beating someone who wins 2 1/2 times their prize. I’d be hard-pressed to think of a less fair situation.
I’m genuinely sorry to hear of Pat Conroy’s passing. His books have been so amazing.
Tru dat!
It IS, no question.
The problem is, the person with 28,932 is not the second-highest scorer. That person is behind three others, therefore the fourth-highest scorer.
And we’re ranking people in order of their numbers, not ranking the numbers themselves. Right now, we wouldn’t say, “359 is the leading score,”* we would say “CAMJAY77 is the leading player, with 359 points.”
ETA:
*Well, we could, but we aren’t interested in the number 359 in and of itself; it isn’t even a particularly interesting number. We’re only interested in it because it tells us where one player stands in relation to the field (way the heck out in front).
nm.
Why not have tiebreakers decided by the celebrities on each player’s “alternative” back-up list?
That wouldn’t break every tie, as many alternates survive the year.
I don’t think I’ve ever scored a point. You are keeping score just fine. Ignore the noise.
EDIT: Best tie breaker would be whoever picked first. All entries are time/date stamped.
Idle Thoughts, you just can’t change tradition and not expect to ruffle feathers. Baker did it the way amarone did it, who did it the way a35362 did it, who copied whoever came before.
AFAIC, you have yet to show GOOD reason to change the placement listing other than you like it your way.
Nancy Reagan just said dead at 6 points.
Someone must have had her. I did not. I have Fidel Castro, who continues to mock me with his living.
She was an alternate for me, dagnabbit.
It makes no sense to me. I don’t see the sense behind it, which I’ve tried to explain twice now, in long posts. I refuse to hijack this thread (personally) any further with it, however if you want to start another topic about it in another forum, I will talk about it in there. Many people have continued, telling me how wrong I apparently am, but I disagree, and I really don’t think this is something a person can be “right” or “wrong” about. The way I do it works too and I’ve seen it done before many times.
Sorry if it bothers people to the point of not being able to play, but it’s how I’m going to do it if I’m running it. It’s how I run any game or contest that I run that has a scoreboard.
I did, surprisingly. I think this is one of the few years I’ve ever had two people on my list actually die relatively early in the year.
I had Nancy Reagan too. Moving on up the leaderboard…
Good Riddance. Her and her fcking little gun. Here is hopinhg she spends eternitnity in Hell, being butt fcked by three legged mules, dressed in sequence and dripping in horse sh*t. (Gee, have I made my feelings known?)
That’s what I like about you. Class, right down the line.
Why thank you Jack Batty. That is a real compliment!!!