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Old 09-18-2007, 04:03 PM  
Virago
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Originally Posted by will76 View Post
Thanks Mike, at least you understand things.
each sponsor was on a level playing field.

Each sponsor had equal chance to win.
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wrong. for that to be true you would have had to have done something like a single 320 choice poll. there would have been better ways to do it, but that would have been the simplist
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the way you did it here your results are statistically inaccurate to put it lightly. none of your placements are mathematically sound
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you broke the competition up into flights pitting programs against others in their alphabetical bracket and programs that were up against more popular programs in their own bracket were at a disadvantage over others in less popular brackets
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logically, the next step here would be to have a run-off between your entries up there, but that would only result in you being sure of the #1 spot even the #2 spot would have a significant enough margin of error to render the reuslts mathematically useless
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there would have been lots of ways to have a ranking system in place in the flight system but they all involve using many more tiers than the single one you ran here
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