BTP Week 2

[Boner_18]

If the numbers are the same as last week and Prick gets 1 point (he wins his best bet mon. night) the break down will be as follows:
5 - 178.57
4 - 142.86
3 - 107.14
2 - 71.43

Of course I think there are more people playing this week and who knows how close the results will be to last week. I'm 3-0 w/ best bet to play tonight (steelers -6).

[Doc JS]

If the numbers are the same as last week and Prick gets 1 point (he wins his best bet mon. night) the break down will be as follows:
5 - 178.57
4 - 142.86
3 - 107.14
2 - 71.43

Of course I think there are more people playing this week and who knows how close the results will be to last week. I'm 3-0 w/ best bet to play tonight (steelers -6).

I'm no math whiz but isn't the pay out also determined by the number of players that finish with each point total??

Hi,

I am going to try to explain the calculations involved, but please keep in mind that I'm not a math expert and may be wrong. I would appreciate feedback/explanations/clarifications if I've missed something.

Number of participants week 1: 136
Prick's score: 3
Participants that beat the Prick: 12 (10 with score of 5 and 2 with score of 4)

Since the Prick has 3 points, we must subtract 3 from all the participants points and pay the ones > 0

The guy who has 2 points should win a prize 2 times greater than the one who has one point (prize prorated to the number of points)

So (10 * X) + (2 * X / 2 ) = $5000.00

In other words if X is the prize for the guys in first position X/2 should be the prize for the guys in second position and if you add all prizes up you should get 5000.00.

(2 * X / 2) can be simplified to X (2 * 100 / 2 = 100)

So (10 * X) + X = 5000 or
11 * X = 5000 so
X = 5000 / 11
X = 454.545454


X = 454.55 (amount for guys with 5 points)

X / 2 = 227.27 (amount for guys with 4 points)

I think I've got it but maybe their is as simpler way to arrive to the same results.

Also a very big thanks to SBR for this superb contest, do you realize that they are giving out $85000.00 (I'm assuming that someone will always beat the prick - I feel pretty confident of that (17 / 200 = only about an 8% (I think - I may be wrong here again) chance that no one beats him for one week) between say 200 contestants, that is still an average of 425.00 per person just for putting in picks, and playing wisely your winnings... Many Thanks SBR!


What if only 2 contestants scored 5 and 10 scored 4, what would be the prize for each contestant? (according to this formula it should be 714.29 and 357.14)

Doc

[Boner_18]

Yeah they are doc. That is just a break down "if the numbers were the same as last week". I just did it to get a ballpark figure...

So if contestants scores were constant and only difference from last week was the prick's total thats what the pay out breakdown would be.

[konck]

I don't need any math i had Jax-SD- Seattle hahahha i could have swept instead of been swept. GG me

[Doc JS]

I don't need any math i had Jax-SD- Seattle hahahha i could have swept instead of been swept. GG me

LOL...That's the great thing about BTP...There's a new contest this week!!!

Doc