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Old 10-22-2009, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by gorvy
ah, didn't catch that not all events count toward the first tie breaker system. Your strategy seems sound, waiting for now and seeing where you are just before the 1st tiebreaker closes. What a convuluted tie breaker system. You can't complain too much since its a free game, but when the goal is survival, why reward somebody for getting a lucky pick that no one else has as your first breaker? Why not reward the player that consistently hits the harder choices by simply totalling up all the show prices. Then perhaps going to # of wins, then # of places, then price of wins etc. This is why I wish these contests were long enough to avoid the need for tie breakers in the first place. Oh well.
I agree with using the sum of all show prices as the tie-breaker. That makes the most sense to me. They could also use that for the ongoing ranking, instead of # of wins.

Or maybe they should start everyone with a $100 hypothetical bankroll, and rank us by how much bankroll we have (assuming total reinvestment).

I'm still in "last place", btw! My winning selection yesterday did me no good. I'm now the only one of 193 remaining players with just 3 wins.

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