(+8.41%) is my guess right now.
Well since you want to snip my guess I would change my guess to 8.52+
I don't think however that this kind of snipping should be allowed
Welcome to the price is right lol
That's a good point, it does make it a bit unfair, but the more people we have participating the more likely it is to have to happen, we only have so much reasonable range to work with.
Maybe we should change it from a 1% margin of error to something lower?
EDIT: here's another thought. Maybe we should require a small buy-in to participate. Winner take all.
Well on the price is right I understand that you only get one guess, there is generally more information available regarding the price and the "bidding" order is random.
I think it would be fair that any guess would have a 'guaranteed' spread/margin of something like 0.2% both above and below of your guess, so for example if you bid +1% then everything from +0.8 to +1.2 is considered taken (my guess is still +8.52%). I think this would encourage more early guessing and would give an advantage to early guessers who otherwise are at an advantage due to lack of data
Thank you for the feedback. I'm open to discussion and here is what I think about it.
If anything the rules should be simplified, not made more complicated. For example what happens with your example if someone says +0.79? Does that person not have a full "range" of +0.2% because 0.8-1.0 belongs to another person?
I don't think there is any "sniping" or any other kind of "outbidding" here like e.g. on eBay, since you don't know which way it will go. In other words if you think it's 9.15% - say 9.15%, don't say 8.65% to cover a range.
The 1% rule only kicks in if everybody is completely wrong (like last time), it's not a "margin of error", and it's not supposed to improve your chance of winning against other participants - it's the opposite actually because if the rule needed to be applied it means NOBODY wins. I think I'll try to reword the rules for the next cycle to state that the 1% is applied after all other rules and tiebreakers - it wouldn't change the outcome but perhaps would make it less confusing.
Anyway, the list so far - below. Let me know if I missed anything. Korbman - please change your number.
GermanGiant +3.00%
davejh +0.50%
Ume +6.00%
Kexkey +4.77%
philipma1957 -1.11%
adaseb +8.00%
SimplisticStu +4.55%
geforcelover +4.12%
wpt1wpt1 +3.45%
klondike_bar -4.25%
gallery2000 -20.00% I think I know what you're doing here
galdur +5.28%
buyandhold +0.77%
Quickseller -4.80%
jermwerty +8.01%
edonkey waiting for the cat
Korbman needs to change the number (used +5.28% same as galdur)
armedmilitia +2.00%
quakefiend420 +8.41%
thriftshopping +8.52%
HerbPean +4.20%
