Pointless Prize: Keeping it 100

@IBProFun 184943 wrote:

I love it! It’s a total Gaming the System effort while being a 100% team player! I see that there are already a number of people that have 6 days and 100 (to 102) miles. May I humbly suggest that you consider the two day week in March as a tie breaker?

My guess is that there won’t be a tie (the odds of it after 11 weeks are quite low), but this would be a very reasonable approach. (The other idea I had, which would be harder to check, would be for the lowest median weekly mileage – basically, who was closest to 100 most often, so someone who rode 100, 100, and 109 miles would win the tiebreaker over someone who rode 103 each week. But that’d be a bit more time-consuming to look at.)

@obscurerichard 184960 wrote:

We’ll work on building a proper leaderboard for this for the site, see: https://github.com/freezingsaddles/freezing-web/issues/84

This should be able to build on the excellent work that jrenaut is doing regarding the team scoring revisions.

Thanks!

@obscurerichard 184989 wrote:

What L? (Trollface)

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No idea – I don’t see one in your post, nor in the quote I posted. Folks must’ve been seeing things.

Based on rides uploaded as of 9PM tonight (just before the end of week 9 of Freezing Saddles) and assuming I didn’t screw anything up – there are a total of 20 people who are contributing the maximum 1,520 points so far to their respective teams (riding all 62 days and at least 100 miles per week). Nicely done!

Of the 20, there are quite a few who have been racking up quite a large number of miles (you know who you are). However, there are 5 folks who have managed to get 100 miles each week so far and have more than 88% of their total miles count towards their team standings, which is what this prize is all about.

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[td]Name[/td]
[td]Miles[/td]
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[tr]
[td]Lachlan M[/td]
[td]1,018[/td]
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[tr]
[td]Rumi M[/td]
[td]1,000[/td]
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[tr]
[td]Marc S[/td]
[td]994[/td]
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[td]Maedi C[/td]
[td]965[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Brad H[/td]
[td]960[/td]
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Only two weeks left – and with the crazy weather we have – it’s anyone’s (really minor) prize to claim.

For folks who weren’t able to attend last night (or were too busy catching up with folks to listen) – here’s the prepared version of my remarks last night w/the prize winners.

I also sponsored the “Keeping it 100” prize this year, in honor of the rule change capping the miles each week that would count towards the team score.

I’ve a total of three prizes to give out. The first is to Adam Bibler on Team 7, who – out of the more than quarter of us who rode every day, rode the most miles over Freezing Saddles (866) without exceeding the cap once in any given week.

On the other end of the spectrum: ignoring the last two-day mini-week, a total of 18 people contributed the maximum number of points to their teams by riding every day and hitting 100 miles each week. Of those 18, Brad H (also on Team 7) rode the fewest miles – only 64 over the cap (less than 6 per week).

11 of those 18 were able to ride at least 100 miles over the last two days of Freezing Saddles. Out of those 11, Maedi C (ALSO on Team 7 – I’m sensing a theme here) managed to exceed 100 miles each and every week with less than 70 miles not counting for her team. In addition to the thematically appropriate candy prize, she also wins this 100 Yen coin (with Cherry Blossoms on the face).