# Superhero Madness (Round 4) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 22, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-madness-round-4/457332 "2008-07-22T03:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-madness-round-4/457332/21 "2008-07-23T11:20:40Z")
Wonder Woman Wolverine Spider-Man Hellboy ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-madness-round-4/457332/22 "2008-07-23T14:31:38Z")
Batman (16-4) Wolverine (13-7) Spider-Man (16-4) Hellboy (10-9-1) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-madness-round-4/457332/23 "2008-07-24T03:01:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Didn’t ArizonaTeach originally set it up so that a dark horse or two could make it to the finals (wasn’t that the ’ . . . with a twist’ part)? These are 8 of the most popular superheroes ever. > [@](#): > > That was the original idea, yes. This has just been a standard X Madness series. I’m game to try again with ArizonaTeach’s version when time and house stress relent enough to make it feasible. The seeding is already done for it, and we can compare the outcomes. > > I am not particularly happy with how this one is playing out, anyway. I believe his “twist” was the original seeding thread which let people suggest names for the competition. Here’s his post: > [@](#): > > You will need to create a list of 40 heroes. Seed them with your top ranking at #1, and your lowest at #40. I will tally the votes for each hero and create a ranking of the top 64 seeds. A #1 vote will count for 40 points, a #2 vote will count for 39 points, all they way to 1 point for a #40 vote. I anticipate (hopefully) far more than 64 heroes to be named by the time the seeding is done. > > The top four seeds will become the top seed in each of four brackets, and the remaining 60 seeds will be distributed randomly (handy 4-sider!) to the other brackets, which may cause a couple top-heavy brackets…but hey, that’s how seeding works, right? Sometimes one bracket has a couple heavy hitters in it. The top four vote getters were Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, and Wolverine and they’re going to be the final four here. The only change I made was to rank the other sixty characters in order of seeding order rather than randomly. You’re not going to see many surprises in Madness threads. The players that are most popular are obviously going to end up in the final rounds. The only way to avoid this is to deliberately match top competitors against each other in the early rounds so they knock each other out. And that has the disadvantage of making the final rounds easy walkovers. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-madness-round-4/457332/24 "2008-07-24T03:05:34Z")
[Round Five](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10033628#post10033628) is up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-madness-round-4/457332.md?page=1)