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September 05, 2007
Lindros Over/Under Winners: Apparently, hockey season ended and nobody told me. Or did they get locked out again? Congrats to skydivemom and goddam, and congratulations to Eric Lindros, who continues to receive a steady paycheck.
posted by The_Black_Hand to navel gazing at 04:34 PM - 14 comments
Finally! That spreadsheet has been waiting for nearly 5 months to see the light of day. I hate to rain on your parade, but my sources have The Big E pegged at 49 games played, and 26 points scored. Also, I'm pretty sure we were playing Bizarro Price is Right, where the winner had to be closest, without going under the actual retail total. This is the only way I can explain NoMich's 82g, 110p prediction. In my spreadsheet I have marked in red every prediction that underestimated Lindros. That eliminates quite a few of us, and leaves SummersEve and wingnut4life to share the overall trophy.
posted by qbert72 at 07:38 PM on September 05, 2007
Ah, fuck it. Trophies for everybody! I can't remember which site I looked the stats up on last night at home, but after double-checking, it appears you're correct, q. As far as my original ruling, I stand by it. skydivemom and goddam are much hotter than SummersEve and wingnut, so they win, dammit.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 04:31 AM on September 06, 2007
Oh, you're so wrong. I'm so hot I sizzle.
posted by SummersEve at 01:42 PM on September 06, 2007
In my calculations (based on the root mean squares in difference of points and games), the winner is Folkways. Name RMS Folkways 3.54 Fabulon7 5.15 Qbert 6.96 Hater187 8.28 WeedyMcSmokey 8.75 Skydivemom 9.22 The_Black_Hand 10.30 2bnamedl8r 12.21 Wingnut4life 12.59 MrFrisby 12.75 SummersEve 12.98 Garfield 13.93 Grum@work 16.28 Skydivedad 18.38 Goddam 19.10 Samsonov14 19.24 NoMich 63.82
posted by grum@work at 08:15 PM on September 06, 2007
Root mean squares are hot.
posted by The Crafty Sousepaw at 09:05 PM on September 06, 2007
Dammit, if grum can't figure out a way for me to win, there must not be a way.
posted by MrFrisby at 10:08 PM on September 06, 2007
The root mean square does not take the Bizarro Price Is Right rule into account, though.
posted by qbert72 at 01:02 PM on September 07, 2007
The root mean square does not take the Bizarro Price Is Right rule into account, though. If you take that into account, the winner would be Wingnut4life (since his RMS is the lowest for those that were equal or above both values).
posted by grum@work at 09:47 PM on September 07, 2007
Putting Frisby second by .16 So close. Dude, you are SO close.
posted by The Crafty Sousepaw at 11:46 PM on September 07, 2007
Putting Frisby second by .16 Actually, not true. According to BPiR rules, MrFisby would not qualify since he guessed 10 games UNDER the number that Lindros played. Second place would be SummersEve.
posted by grum@work at 12:51 PM on September 08, 2007
So grum is essentially showing off his math to tell you exactly what I told you in the beginning: wingnut and douche rule!
posted by qbert72 at 02:37 AM on September 09, 2007
Wait, what? Did I do something right? Win aa prize? Money comming my way? Aw fuck-it, ill just take SummersEve and a couple of movie tickets please.
posted by Folkways at 08:03 PM on September 10, 2007
Aw fuck-it, ill just take SummersEve and a couple of movie tickets please. I didn't think they let you bring your own beverages into the theater.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 05:19 AM on September 11, 2007
Lindros ended up playing in 50 games last year; using our patented Price-Is-Right-Closest-Without-Going-Over scoring system, skydivemom, who guessed 48 games, came closest. As far as points go, no scoring system needed. goddam nailed it, fearlessly prognosticating that Big E would score just 27 points, which he did. Nice job, ladies. An autographed copy of Lindros' latest CAT scan is in the mail! No, I have no table-fu at all. Deal with it. SpoFite Games Points Wingnut4life 60 40 Qbert72 40 30 WeedyMcSmokey 37 23 2bnamedl8r 32 23 Skydivedad 25 16 Fabulon7 42 28 Folkways 45 23 Goddam 22 27 Garfield 57 44 MrFrisby 39 41 Hater187 45 37 Samsonov14 65 48 Grum@work 68 39 SummersEve 58 42 NoMich 82 110 Skydivemom 48 39 The_Black_Hand 45 40 SpoFi Averages 47.65 38.24