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Thanks for all the work lobo, and congratulations to billy (you got mine right and I'm confident the others:-)). One tiebreaker question...

Posted by: KalElFan (a.k.a del_TOM_KalElFan) on Jan 16, 07:40 in response to lobogotti's post ***Oscar Contest Update (unofficial winner)

I wasn't sure whether Best Picture also had points, but I see since 35 was the cap that it was just the 7 x 5 categories that had points and not Best Picture. For the Best Picture tiebreaker, was it strictly absolute number right, or percentage right, and how if at all did wrong choices factor?

In retrospect, in terms of strategy, I'm wondering if it made no sense for me to pick only 7. It wouldn't have mattered in terms of the result (congratulations again to billy, and at least three others finished higher than me), but I think it made no sense. My thinking was if they only named 7 (a longshot), and I had all 7 right, I'd win (or at least tie) in the tiebreaker. Or I might even win with 6/7 if it was percentage right. But if number of right answers ALONE was the tiebreaker, we all should have picked 10 because there was no downside.

***Oscar Contest Update (unofficial winner) lobogotti Jan 16, 07:17

Thanks for the comments, although... alfjox Jan 16, 07:32

this is why I can't declare an official winner until people check their work. I just went back and see that I made lobogotti Jan 16, 07:35

The 31 and 30 totals for billy and alfjox look right to me. Thanks for running the quickie contest. {nm} second gary Jan 16, 07:39

thanks gary {nm} lobogotti Jan 16, 09:15

thanks for doing this ... some errata Houndowl Jan 16, 08:02

thank you... I will redo that as well (ugh- it was a busy morning. glad it was the tie-breaker category my mistakes are coming from) {nm} lobogotti Jan 16, 08:04

congrats to billy (unofficilally) & thanks to lobo daveart Jan 16, 08:42

no problem and great job dave {nm} lobogotti Jan 16, 09:16

Thanks for all the work lobo, and congratulations to billy (you got mine right and I'm confident the others:-)). One tiebreaker question... KalElFan Jan 16, 07:40

no problem and answers.... lobogotti Jan 16, 07:57

Okay so 1st TieBreaker = #CorrectBP, 2nd = #PerfectCategories, 3rd = #SelectedBP and... KalElFan Jan 16, 08:22

yes, that works for ties. I plan to do it next year and will probably see if DMac is cool with me doing one for the Oscars this year. lobogotti Jan 16, 08:27

Great, thanks. {nm} KalElFan Jan 16, 08:35

If i stay the winner or not, thank you for your great work!!! {nm} billy Jan 16, 07:52

when I was going over answers (column by column) and got to your 2nd perfect submission I was impressed. lobogotti Jan 16, 08:00

Me too :) billy Jan 16, 08:11

Great fun... and next time I'll remember to double check my cut-n-paste to all categories are there<argh!> {nm} gsquared Jan 16, 08:46

;) {nm} lobogotti Jan 16, 09:17

There's 2 'Coopers' in the Sup Actor Category. If someone guessed the wrong 'Cooper' they would still get the point. {nm} Afterburner Jan 16, 09:09

he guessed Bradley and Chris Cooper {nm} lobogotti Jan 16, 09:15

Thanks for all the hard work lobo {nm} capitolfi Jan 16, 09:58