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You skip ONE PAGE of this thread and…
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Third time.
No, but the results since I have been doing this are:
2010: Elizabeth Edwards, 936 points
2009: Patrick Swayze, 4,128
2008: Tony Snow, 752
2007: Tammy Faye Messner, 1,750
Could Zsa Zsa become least valuable living person? that is: Oldest person picked by the most people who refuses to die?
This is the million dollar question, ainit?
Upon hearing the big news of the day, Zsa Zsa wasn’t so much angry that she still hasn’t “taken her turn” as she was that it’s tough to dance on the devil’s grave with only one leg.
If she wanted to dance on bin Laden’s grave, she’d have to change her name to Bob.
where’s the gawdamned “like” button in this forum?
You cry out, very cutely, “Thread Winner!”
In December I asked myself, “what Al-Qaeda S.O.B. will get it in the next 12 months?”
And I answered, Abdelbaset al-Megrah.
Oh well, it’s still only May.
Dang it! The one person I didn’t put on my hopeful list was Bin Laden! I think that was because last year or so someone said I wouldn’t get points because Bin Laden was thought to be dead or something.
Yvette Vickers body has been discovered, she’s been dead for about a year. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman star was/would have been(?) 82.
Good to know that if I die alone in my house, my mail carrier will keep delivering my mail for a year and not think to say anything to anybody.
since the space heater was running, I guess she had had automatic payment on her electric bills
I’m a lurker rather than a player, but isn’t there a certain tension between value and scoring the most points overall?
Take JPII per appleciders: if most people had him, he scores a lot of points, total, but if you had him that year, you gained zero points over most of the other players, and a measly 12 over those that didn’t pick him. So picking him had value, but not very much of it really.
One possible metric, using logic borrowed from the binomial distribution, is:
corpse value = (points)(fraction of players who had that corpse)(fraction of players that didn’t).
The product of the last two factors is an accurate measure of what proportion of players gained an advantage over how many other players by picking that corpse. And the first factor is, of course, how big an advantage was gained.
Anyhow, now that your friendly local math geek has finished his digression, I return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Theoretically, you want a 50%/50% split of picked vs not picked, no matter what the age.
CV for a various ages and various percentages.
Percentage of Players picking a player
10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
20 7.2 12.8 16.8 19.2 20.0 19.2 16.8 12.8 7.2 0.0
30 6.3 11.2 14.7 16.8 17.5 16.8 14.7 11.2 6.3 0.0
A 40 5.4 9.6 12.6 14.4 15.0 14.4 12.6 9.6 5.4 0.0
50 4.5 8.0 10.5 12.0 12.5 12.0 10.5 8.0 4.5 0.0
G 60 3.6 6.4 8.4 9.6 10.0 9.6 8.4 6.4 3.6 0.0
70 2.7 4.8 6.3 7.2 7.5 7.2 6.3 4.8 2.7 0.0
E 80 1.8 3.2 4.2 4.8 5.0 4.8 4.2 3.2 1.8 0.0
90 0.9 1.6 2.1 2.4 2.5 2.4 2.1 1.6 0.9 0.0
100 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Micheal Jackson had to be number one in points scored ,didn’t he?
45 people picked MJ, worth a total of 2250 points. Far short of Swayze.
Oh great! Now the death pool involves math. Sheesh!
Its my goal to get this game down to a science. If that requires string theory or quantum mechanics, so be it. 