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Highest Average Placement (Green Jersey) Classification #109

Open wcjoslin opened 6 months ago

wcjoslin commented 6 months ago

Context: In addition to predicting the overall winner, this will be a competition for the highest average placing team. Inspired by the Green Jersey of the Tour de France

Goal: Introduce alternate scoring method that takes into account not only likelihood of winning the whole race, but on average placing highest in each leg.

Description: Players decide at beginning of season which contestant(s) will average the best finishing placement per leg. Contestants score points based on placement at the end of each leg, in a non-linear system described below. Contestants with highest score at end of season wins the Green Jersey.

Scoring Breakdown:

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
50 30 20 18 16 14 12 10
jjm3x3 commented 6 months ago

Oh! This is very interesting! I like this a lot! Is this alternate scoring an option that would be setup at the beginning of the a league?

wcjoslin commented 6 months ago

I'm betwixt and between on this one whether it's another "set and forget" choice like the current system.

Question about teams at the beginning of the season: How much information do you get about the teams before the season starts? Choosing teams with no prior knowledge is essentially just guessing, which is not very fun or interactive.

Question about pre-episode knowledge: Do you know what challenges are going to appear in the upcoming episode? This could help inform who you think will do best that week.

The systems I am basing the idea off of requires that the contestant finish the race, but there is only 1 finisher in the Amazing Race by design. The non-linear points system makes it interesting where a team that does very well early on but gets knocked out midway through the season could still win the points competition.

2 options come to mind:

  1. Choose the team at the beginning of the season that you think will place highest on average, choice does not change for the whole season.
  2. Every week, choose the team you think will place the highest that week. This changes the system so the fantasy-site users are the ones gaining points instead of the teams in the race.

Option 2 is definitely the higher user engagement choice.