Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 00:14:15 02/11/05
Hello everyone, Since posting the seedings here and on ICC, I have been getting so many emails asking how it was done, or how a participant feels he/she should be rated above this or that program. So here is the explanation. There were eight people panelled for the seedings. I sent out the list of the participants and asked them to seed 1 through 44. 5 of the 8 gave me an actual list numbering from 1-44, and the others offered that the list that I had setup previously was fine with a few adjustments. My list consisted of ratings from the WBEC-Ridderk website. I then took the scores submitted and put them into a spreadsheet I made where if a program received a vote for the #1 seed it was given 44 points. If a program was given a vote for the #44 seed it was given 1 point and so forth. This worked out extremely well as there we no ties for a particular seeding spot, and the top 5 seeds were decided by a total of 3.25 points. That is how close it was. Seeing how I am not going to release who gave what program a certain score, yet many want to know who was involved to ensure accuracy, the panel of people that helped with the seeding process were: Robert Hyatt Mike Byrne Dann Corbit John Merlino Enrico Carrisco Tony Hedlund Gian-Carlo Pascutto Jim Walker I felt this was an excellent group of individuals to help with this task as they are all very knowledgable with almost all programs involved and they are also very well known members of this board. While some are not happy with their seeding I can tell you that most of the middle seeds were decided by 0.25 of a point or less in the breakdown. That is extremely accurate, and assures me that those involved did their homework. I want to thank them publically for all that they did, as I am sure it was time consuming seeing it was discussed via email thoroughly. Some of you may recognize this "formula" I used, as it is the same one used in the Cy Young balloting in baseball :) Peter
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