Predict the grades? $20 for "closest to the pin" guess

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I am usually a fairly poor guesser on these type of contests, but here goes anyways...

51 Bowman Doby 5.0
57 Topps Lemon 5.5
80 Topps Henderson 8.0
60 Topps Kaat 5.0
51 Redback Kiner 5.0
48 Leaf Kiner 3.0
58 Topps AS Musial 6.5
93 Topps Jeter 8.5
62 Topps B Williams 5.0

Crossing my fingers!

Brian

This reminds me when my mother in law would be watching the Red Sox and see the replay of the HR that was just hit and would start to yell, “Oh my god! They just hit another one!”

(But thx for playing anyway, Brian… your submission is just a touch late!)

Jeff

[RL]

100 points

51 Bowman Doby 3
57 Topps Lemon 5
80 Topps Henderson 7
60 Topps Kaat 3
51 Redback Kiner 3
48 Leaf Kiner 4
58 Topps AS Musial 5
93 Topps Jeter 7
62 Topps Billy Williams 3

[bobbyw8469]

I put mine in as well....I did not see the grades and had no idea they were posted. I am an above average grader and could honestly be working for any of these grading companies, but I can't afford the pay cut.

[Snowman]

Looks like I got 525 points. Fun game, thanks for posting.

[bobbyw8469]

475 here. 3 hit dead on, 3 within a half, 2 within one, and the 1960 Katt was off by 2 whole grades.

[Belfast1933]

As the OG poster here, I’ll tally the submissions that made it in within the time period to see who wins my Andrew Jackson… something to do tomorrow during our upcoming Snomageddon!

[vthobby]

I still feel as an overall "best guess" you should have added all the grades up to see who came the closest. That is because I'm pretty good at getting an order "guessed" as a whole.

In fact, your total grades = 51.5
My total grades guess = 51.5

No surprise to me!

I lost however based on the exact guesses. I am a supremely confident and accurate loser!

Thanks for the contest!

Mike

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by vthobby

I still feel as an overall "best guess" you should have added all the grades up to see who came the closest. That is because I'm pretty good at getting an order "guessed" as a whole.

In fact, your total grades = 51.5
My total grades guess = 51.5

No surprise to me!

I lost however based on the exact guesses. I am a supremely confident and accurate loser!

Thanks for the contest!

Mike

This would be a terrible way to gauge which guesses were the most accurate. The total sum means nothing. You could be miles off with every card and still get the same total. If you want to "improve" the scoring algorithm, you should use the root mean squared error. Whoever has the lowest RMSE is the most accurate. But it doesn't matter anyhow. The OP already set up the scoring. It's directionally accurate and fun.