mrkubin
Newbie
Hello, I have programmed a small site to record predictions of games. It is not much at the moment, but I will expand upon it if it turns out to be popular or if people think it's a good idea. I would like to gather predictions from both Ohio State and Texas fans to compare the predictions and see how being a fan of either team affects your prediction. Here is a summary of my goals for the site:
To test the wisdom of crowds by gathering a large number of predictions of sports scores, averaging them, and comparing the prediction with the actual outcome.
To measure "homerism": How much does being a fan of a particular team affect your view of who will win a game?
To have predictions recorded all in one place.
To have fun predicting sports scores and showing statistics!
An incentive: I will mail a 20 dollar Best Buy gift certificate to the person who guesses the closest. I know it's not much, but it's better than nothing. I will e-mail the winner after the game. In the event of a tie, there will be a tiebreaker to determine who will get the gift certificate (eg. guess a number between 1 and 500).
Please take a moment to make an account and post your prediction if you would like. Thanks!
The site is at:
The Link
It does require registration because I want to minimize the possibility that the same person is predicting the score for a game multiple times.
To test the wisdom of crowds by gathering a large number of predictions of sports scores, averaging them, and comparing the prediction with the actual outcome.
To measure "homerism": How much does being a fan of a particular team affect your view of who will win a game?
To have predictions recorded all in one place.
To have fun predicting sports scores and showing statistics!
An incentive: I will mail a 20 dollar Best Buy gift certificate to the person who guesses the closest. I know it's not much, but it's better than nothing. I will e-mail the winner after the game. In the event of a tie, there will be a tiebreaker to determine who will get the gift certificate (eg. guess a number between 1 and 500).
Please take a moment to make an account and post your prediction if you would like. Thanks!
The site is at:
The Link
It does require registration because I want to minimize the possibility that the same person is predicting the score for a game multiple times.