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Buggy is the best. Fantasy sports are fun. Why did we not think of this earlier? The Buggy Alumni Association brings you for the first time ever, Fantasy Buggy. Even better, this is for the big time. Make better picks than anyone else, and you’ll walk away with $250, enough for a ticket to carnival (or almost enough, depending on where you live and how good you are at shopping for tickets).
You can get the full details here http://cmubuggy.org/fantasy
The basic idea is that you are trying to pick the fastest team you can from the rolls that happen next weekend during the Céilidh festivities, Oct 29th. To do so, you must pick 4 freerolls and 4 backhills. The sum of those times is your score (see the detailed rules). The tough part? You can only make one pick from each organization. Every entry will need to pick one element from each org on the course. You’re rooting for everyone this homecoming!
Here are some more details on the rules, but hit up the fantasy buggy page for the full details and to make your picks. One entry per person, so choose wisely. All picks must be in by Friday Oct 28, 11:59pm.
Basics
- Pick 4 freerolls and 4 back hills
- Each pick specifies Org-Roll-Buggy-Segment (e.g. SigEp-Roll2-Barracuda-Freeroll)
- Must make 1 and only 1 pick from each org
- 1 entry per person
Scoring
- Score = total of 4 freeroll times + 4 back hill times
- Segments that don’t happen (the buggy isn’t out or doesn’t roll the specified roll) are given that org’s worst time +1 second
- Spins or stops are given the overall worst time + 2 seconds
- Women’s freerolls are given their time – 3 seconds
- Women’s backhills are given their time – 6 seconds
- Tie-breaker: closest guess on winning men’s hill 2->finish time
Get it? If not, leave a comment and we’ll sort things out. Tell your friends!
RMike says:
I’m a bit confused as to how this works. What if I think a certain org will have the fastest downhill AND the fastest backhills? Its not letting me choose that. Its not even letting me say that org X will have the fastest downhill and 2nd fastest backhills.
The way I understand it right now is that I have to choose 8 different orgs since there are the top 4 for down and up, but there aren’t even 8 orgs rolling.
Sam Swift says:
Hi RMike. The idea is that having to select one segment from each org makes it more challenging because the fast orgs downhill are generally the same as the fast orgs uphill these days. So while you might guess that a specific org will be fastest up and down, you have to choose which will make your overall fantasy team better and pick them only once.
There are actually potentially 9 orgs rolling but SN and Delta Force were combined into a single pick for our game because they were both maybe’s. So there are 8 orgs to pick from and you have to pick exactly 1 of each.
Hope that clears things up some, let me know if it doesn’t
RMike says:
Hmmm… considering I’m SN’s head mechanic.. this should be interesting.
Anon says:
So, I see an information problem here. Anyone playing can contact their participating organization and get inside information about expected performance plans. That seems somewhat fair–except for the PiKA Alums, but no one feels sorry for them–but whoever is collecting the bets has access to more information.
Now I’d assume certain persons are not participating. That’s just standard operating procedure for any contest. We can all agree it’d be shenanigans if Sam or Nik won, right? But how do we know they aren’t passing on information to their friends? Or in Sam’s case, his unaccountable alter ego, tommyk. The Swift Miss all but confirmed it with her if-this-was-facebook-like, right? Plus, Sam doesn’t even have to do that. He can just collect guesses, wait for results and then announce, hey surprise, tommyk got it exactly right, with an aw shucks in there somewhere. Or the Swift Miss, who, come to think about it, we can’t be sure is real either.
There are probably several solutions to this but since none have been implemented, I don’t see any reason to wait until after the results are announced to start calling shenanigans. Unless a PiKA alum wins. Then we can be pretty sure they didn’t receive inside information.
Sam Swift says:
Another terrific indictment of this operation Anon, but I think I’ve got my bases covered on this one.
– it says in the fine print of the rules that BAA committee members may play but not win, so on the surface we’re clean
– participants must enter their real name to which the check will be made out. this makes it harder to enter multiple times or to do so under false identities assuming what you’re after is a check you can cash
– every entrant gets an e-mail confirming their picks and issuing them a unique entryID so I can’t change anyone’s picks after the fact against their will
– the results page is set to reveal all picks publicly at 7:30 tomorrow morning before rolls start. If you want, you can take a screenshot and confirm that the winner’s picks were made before the times were known.
– picks will be identified only by the unique entryIDs until after rolls to make it more difficult for a team that wanted to scan the entries and skew things towards their friends
– every entry involves all 8 or 9 orgs so it would take a lot of collusion to guarantee a win
– the rules for this event were developed publicly starting 2 weeks ago in the project zone, so there was ample opportunity for the conspiracists among us to suggest further safeguards
aw shucks,
– sam
Mark estes says:
I win!!
No picks + no rolls = victory
Ben says:
That means I win too, do we split the winnings or what?