Week Two Results

[xpanda]

Everyone has a losing pick graded a push this week, since they only announced the Bottom Two.

Also, I will be in the future posting the odds at exactly 3pm each Wednesday afternoon. This is to help reduce disparities between the odds posted and the closing odds. Hopefully a 3pm posting time will suit everyone. If there are any objections, please let me know.

Cheers!

Player      	BT1	BT2	BT3	SLS	Total	Last Wk	YTD
manly	        -110	0	100	300	290 	235	525 
paterno	        100	-110	0	300	290 	235	525 
billhill	100	-110	0	300	290 	25	315 
the_devil_mann	100	-110	0	300	290 	25	315 
mr. smith	100	-110	0	300	290 	-10	280 
theticket22	100	-110	0	300	290 	-10	280 
blue rhino	100	-110	0	-100	-110 	235	125 
royboy_3831	-110	0	100	-100	-110 	235	125 
xpanda	        -110	0	100	-100	-110 	235	125 
gynecologist	-110	-110	0	-100	-320 	235	-85 
chess master	100	-110	0	-100	-110 	-10	-120 
wvu	        100	100	0	-100	100 	-220	-120 
whormoan	100	-110	0	300	290 	-430	-140 
wrigley	        -110	-110	0	-100	-320 	25	-295 
akillies	-110	-110	0	-100	-320 	-10	-330 
grand master b	-110	-110	0	-100	-320 	-10	-330 
mrs. Cheater	-110	-110	0	-100	-320 	-10	-330 
kbhirsch	100	-110	0	-100	-110 	-220	-330 
pefbear	        100	-110	0	-100	-110 	-220	-330 
primetime21	100	-110	0	-100	-110 	-220	-330 
brock	        -110	-110	0	-100	-320 	-220	-540 
droc	        -110	-110	0	-100	-320 	-220	-540 
patlives	-110	100	0	-100	-110 	-430	-540 
trytrytry	100	-110	0	-100	-110 	-430 	-540

 

[theticket_22]

who was the 2nd person in bottom 2?

 

[xpanda]

Stephanie and Chris R.

 

[Brock]

This is too hard. I must be tone deaf.

 

[manly]

Xpanda,

Thanks for your work with this contest.

The downside of delaying the odds posting is that I anticipate many participants, including myself, will have to post selections blindly without odds since the window to post has been narrowed significantly.

On the other hand, while there will be some odds changes overnite this happens in all contests here at the RX and all participants have the same advantage/disadvantage.
For these reasons, I think it is much more fair for all players to continue posting the odds the night before as has been done previously.

Thanks for your consideration and for coming up with a great contest!

Also, I will be in the future posting the odds at exactly 3pm each Wednesday afternoon. This is to help reduce disparities between the odds posted and the closing odds. Hopefully a 3pm posting time will suit everyone. If there are any objections, please let me know.

 

[ChessMaster]

This is too hard. I must be tone deaf.

Yeah i agree... I've studied music for 20 years but you really dont know how AMERICA is gonna vote each week. Last week it should have been Sanjaya to go, but Brandon was booted instead! If America all had an ear for IN-TUNE music and really voted for the best singers this contest would be different and I'm sure my results would be higher. But... it's long from over

 

[billhill999]

Yeah i agree... I've studied music for 20 years but you really dont know how AMERICA is gonna vote each week. Last week it should have been Sanjaya to go, but Brandon was booted instead! If America all had an ear for IN-TUNE music and really voted for the best singers this contest would be different and I'm sure my results would be higher. But... it's long from over

But it's not just a singing competition.
It's more than singing.

 

[gynecologist]

But it's not just a singing competition.
It's more than singing.

Yeah guys this is a popularity contest as well.. Plenty of things to look at. I knew there was a decent chance that Step would be kicked off but I liked her so much that I let my heart decide.

She was kicked off cause she was the least popular black girl on the show. A lot of the demographical votes went to Lakisha,Melinda,and Jordin.

I think if Lakisha or Melinda never tried out for Idol, Stephanie would still be on the show..

But who knows..

Vagina oh I mean Sangina is still on cause he is amusing and a lot of people are voting for the worst singer left..

The indian fellar might stick around longer than we could ever imagine if people continue to vote for him like they are and Howard Stern and the media keep mentioning that Idol producers and staff are getting upset with this..

Good luck fellas.. Hope I helped.

 

[xpanda]

Xpanda,

Thanks for your work with this contest.

The downside of delaying the odds posting is that I anticipate many participants, including myself, will have to post selections blindly without odds since the window to post has been narrowed significantly.

On the other hand, while there will be some odds changes overnite this happens in all contests here at the RX and all participants have the same advantage/disadvantage.
For these reasons, I think it is much more fair for all players to continue posting the odds the night before as has been done previously.

Thanks for your consideration and for coming up with a great contest!

Thanks, Manly.

Just for the record, the earliest I've posted the odds was at around 11am (this week.) I'm normally up until 3am and the odds so far have never been up at CRIS by that time.

The line swings for this event are quite huge, unlike most other sports. Stephanie went from plus 300 to minus 135 by mid-afternoon. You'd never see swings like that in sports, barring some kind of crazy injury or something.

If I aim for 2pm, will that help? That's only three hours later than this week.

(I would have incorporated this into the original rules, but am used to betting with Pinny, who did post lines much earlier, but who aren't doing elimination odds this year. I hadn't anticipated having to use CRIS.)

 

[manly]

sounds good...as early as possible I think would be best (for the reasons previously mentioned), but if you feel 2 pm would be better - its obviously your call.