ken6199 wrote:I figured if we are going to do this we might as well do it properly, here is my proposal.
Rules:
- I will collect the voting once a month, and update the results at month end.
- You have one vote per month. Feel free to edit your post anytime, cut off day is the last day of the month.
- I will record your prediction associated with your user ID, so don't spam.
- At season ending, I will report the analysis of
- Predicted vs actual finishing position for each team
- Best and worst predictors among us posters
A few notes on the formatting:
- Feel free to use team abbreviations or actual team names, e.g. GSW/GS/Warriors, CLE/Cavs, Blazers/Portland/POR, I will have filters handling them.
- You can either predict top 8, or the whole 15 teams. Latter is preferred.
- Try not to add your reasoning inline, such as "Raptors (because I think xxxxxx)" - this helps me a lot.
The hope is we contain all prediction into one thread, and with all the data collected, we have something meaningful to look back at the end of the season, and reward (shame) the best (worst) predictors. Safe to say I am not the best Excel user or data mining expert, so I welcome all suggestions, here or PM.
TL;DR, just post your prediction below.
Link to the east conference thread:
http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1462464
I'm not sure how you are planning on scoring this but there is s simple little math formula that works well. Points are bad...you get point by missing your prediction. The number of points you get is based on how many places you are off by. So, if you say Utah will finish 8th in the division and they come 5th...you get 3 points, if they come 10th you get 2. Add up the points and lowest wins.
