Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 08:23:07 02/11/05
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On February 11, 2005 at 03:14:15, Peter Skinner wrote: >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 Well I personally have no complaints with #2 :) anthony
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