The contest results for the Regional Contests will
be sent out later tonight.
Before the season comes to an end in just over a week and
people are still paying attention, I wanted to solicit
opinions about this contest (or contests) to decide what to do
next.
As you know, I've been running 3 contests since 1998, one
based on picking winners, a second based on winners plus goal
differential and a third based on winners plus how close you
can pick the winners and losers scores. During the
intervening years, I had three more contests which mimicked
contest 1,2 and 3 (and imaginatively named contests 4,5 and 6)
and were scored as 1,2 and 3 except for no weighting of
winning picks in later rounds.
This year, I introduced a total of 12 new contests, which
consisted of contests 1,2 and 3 for each of the 4 regionals.
I started this more than 20 years ago when my (then) boss
became enamored with spreadsheets and decided that all data
communication in our department should be done via
spreadsheets. I learned the basics of Lotus 1-2-3 but decided
I needed a project to motivate me to learn more than just the
bare basics of spreadsheets. I have now learned all I need to
know about spreadsheets. And besides, I've been retired for 14
years so delving deeper into MS Excel is no longer required.
When this first started in 1998, I would get 50-60
contestants. For the past few years, its been about 20.
So,
what is it that you, as contestants want to see for the
future? Shall I continue with just contest 1,2 and
3? Shall I bring back 4,5 and 6? What do people think about
the separate contests for the regionals? Or, is it time to
retire the whole thing?
Please pipe up and let me know your opinion. You can reply
via Hockey-L if you're interested in starting a public
conversation. Feel free to email me privately if you want (
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