Question of the Week Summer Survival Thread - Hopefully harder than Winter edition...

[WrathOfHan]

Week 11: Yes

[Wrath]

Wk11 - Yes

[MovieMan89]

Week 11: Yes

[That One Girl]

w11y

[Fancyarcher]

Week 11 - Yep.

[Infernus]

Week 11 -  Yes

[Infernus]

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On 7/3/2018 at 4:56 PM, JJ-8 said:

Well the highest ranked active player who hasn't made a mistake is MovieMan89 all the way out in 15th.  Week 8 was a killer in the end... still we move on and here it is....

 

you will have excuse the formatting...….. 

 

	Question of Week Scoring
	Cashout current streak when Incorrect (50% loss), no answer (20% loss), Cashout (0% loss)
	No Color = original scoring (20k per correct answer)
	Orange = 1st Rentry (15k per correct answer)
	Blue = 2nd Reentry (10k per correct answer)
	Green = 3rd Reentry (7k per correct answer)
	Purple = 4th Reentry (5k per correct answer)
	Red = 5th Reentry (or subsequent) (3k per correct answer)
			Current Streak
#	Player	Total Score	Answer Score	#Correct	Running Score	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10
	Actuals					YES	NO	NO
1	Chasmmi	140,000	10,000	2	20000	NO	NO	NO
2	Simionski	140,000	10,000	2	20000	NO	NO	NO
3	Wrath	140,000	10,000	2	20000	NO	NO	NO
4	aabattery	116,000	10,000	2	20000	NO	NO	NO
5	Infernus	100,000	15,000	2	30000	NO	NO	NO
6	bcf26	100,000	15,000	2	30000	NO	NO	NO
7	Fancyarcher	100,000	15,000	2	30000	NO	NO	NO
8	Jake Gittes	100,000	15,000	2	30000	NO	NO	NO
9	JJ-8	100,000	15,000	2	30000	NO	NO	NO
10	That one guy	100,000	15,000	2	30000	NO	NO	NO
11	WrathofHan	100,000	15,000	2	30000	NO	NO	NO
12	ZeeSoh	100,000	15,000	2	30000	NO	NO	NO
13	George (Premium George)	96,000	10,000	0	0	-	-	-
14	kayumanggi	94,000	7,000	2	14000	NO	NO	NO
15	MovieMan89	90,000	7,000	2	14000	-	NO	NO
16	24Lost	83,000	10,000	2	20000	YES	NO	-
17	Empire	83,000	7,000	2	14000	NO	NO	NO
18	glassfairy	80,000	10,000	2	20000	NO	NO	NO
19	Sheikh	80,000	10,000	2	20000	NO	NO	NO
20	Kalo	72,000	7,000	0	0	-	-	-
21	Deja23	65,000	10,000	2	20000	NO	NO	NO
22	Slambros	64,000	5,000	0	0	-	-	-
23	baumer	55,000	5,000	2	10000	NO	NO	NO
24	Chewy	48,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
25	grey ghost	24,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
26	AndyLL	16,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
27	captainwondyful	16,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
28	druv10	16,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
29	Mike Hunt	16,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
30	Panda (Critically Acclaimed Panda)	16,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
31	SchumacherFTW	16,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
32	Spaghetti (Isle of Pasta)	16,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
33	Telemachos	16,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
34	Tree	16,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
35	Alfred (The Dark Alfred)	8,000	3,000	0	0	-	-	-
36	MrWhite (MrPink ?)	3,900	3,000	0	0	NO	NO	-
37	Cmasterclay	0	3,000	0	0	-	-	-

 

 

 

Was kind of surprised with the top 3 above and thought there might have been a mistake in the scoring before going back to read the scoring rules and noticing this -

 

"Incorrect answer cashes you out at half the points won over the player's current answer streak"

 

Whoa. That changes things. So the top 3 above got the better out of cashing out on week 7 than those of us who got it right, despite giving the same answers the weekends after that. Interesting. Some smart strategies can be made out of this if one goes for long term planning.

Edited July 6, 2018 by Infernus

[chasmmi]

Wk 11 - YEs

[Simionski]

WEEK 11: YES

[kayumanggi]

W11 - Y

[Wrath]

On 7/3/2018 at 6:41 PM, Infernus said:

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Was kind of surprised with the top 3 above and thought there might have been a mistake in the scoring before going back to read the scoring rules and noticing this -

 

"Incorrect answer cashes you out at half the points won over the player's current answer streak"

 

Whoa. That changes things. So the top 3 above got the better out of cashing out on week 7 than those of us who got it right, despite giving the same answers the weekends after that. Interesting. Some smart strategies can be made out of this if one goes for long term planning.

During the Winter Game, I gambled and lost on a 50/50 QotW question with about 3 weeks to go. At the time, I thought I had a good shot at getting the final questions right if I got that one, and it felt like I had a shot at gaining a decent number of points if the gamble went well.

 

However, I didn't sit down and do the math, I just eye-balled it and rolled the dice. Right after the deadline, I DID sit down and do the math and realized I'd made a big mistake. Sure, there were a decent number of points to gain, but if I was wrong the penalty was going to hit me REALLY hard making it a far more risky gamble than I'd realized. And I did indeed turn out to be wrong.

 

After the game was over, I went back and did the math and realized that Cashing Out (I prefer to think of it as Abstaining) on that one question would have saved me enough points to bump up my final standing by 2-3 spots. This time around, I've decided to be a little more on top of the details of the mechanics.

Edited July 5, 2018 by Wrath

[bcf26]

Week 11 - Yes

[Deja23]

Week 11 - Yes

[glassfairy]

Week  11 - Yes

[Sheikh]

Week 11 - Yes

[24Lost]

Week 11 - yes

[MrPink]

Week 11 - Yes

[Empire]

Week 11: YES

[ZeeSoh]

Wk11 - yes

[JJ-8]

Week 11 - yes