Every Loser Wins Competition

[Nathan Hughes]

I think the scoring for this is hard enough without penalty points but happy to go with the flow and happy to have another bash another time

Thanks again

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[stilvi]

Well done Illavim. Who would have thought finding losers would be so difficult?

Was certain I posted last night, but it wouldn’t have made any difference.

Thanks for organising.

[greenasgrass]

I really liked this comp, it’s fine as it is , napping or penalising are good ideas but in practice might distort things too much.

Well done with your bismarcks illavim

[Illavim]

Thanks greenasgrass! Must try harder to pick some that actually win races though for the other comps

It was a fun competition, to keep along the same lines as the other comps, naps seem like a good idea, but penalty points would complicate the scoring, and the other comps don’t do penalty points if a win selection finish last so seems unfair to add penalty points just in a’loser’ comp. The generally larger field sizes for Ascot made things trickier too!

[BigG]

Well done Illavim for picking a bunch of duffers

[Illavim]

Thanks BigG, sadly it seems to be the norm for me!

[BigG]

Join the club Illavim

[admin]

I was thinking something along the lines of scoring points based on where your horse finishes relative to its market position.

So if it’s fav and finishes 4th you’d score +3 pts (4-1). If it’s 4th fav and finishes first you’d score -3 pts (1-4). Ranking decided by price and if jt then by racecard number (so two jt favs at 5/2, the 1. rank would be the one of those two with lower race card number).

We may have done something along those lines a LONG time ago, it vaguely rings a bell.

[admin]

The flaw with my scoring is it doesn’t take price into account – so a 1/2 fav finishing last would score same as an 11/2 fav finishing last which is probably not the best reward for those laying the 1/2 shot.

[Triptych]

David,..I think that scoring system might be making it too complicated and time consuming for the scorer if this competition runs alongside the main event.
Just a simple addition of a Nap could decide who would be crowned the biggest loser. Jac

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[Landafar]

I had a look through the selections of the forumites.
There was a good percentage of 1st or 2nd favourite’s selected, which means no impact on ones scores if they win. Note that some of the top jockeys, dont give their horse a hard time if they know that their beat from a long way out.
Im not one to over complicate things in life, so a comp like this, could make too much work for people if a more complex scoring system was adopted, thus a fixed -5 -3 -2 to -1 for anything finishing in the first 3 or 4 depending on numbers.

Otherwise it will take up quite a while of ones time looking at the finishing positions.

But I enjoyed it, and will go again next time with or without changes, but not for jumps meetings, I dont think its nice to see a horse fall and possibly score.

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