Interim Standings

Seven (7) Contests to date. Under the ‘two-thirds’ rule…forecasters who have entered at least five (5) forecasts are included in this interim summary.



Donsutherland1 retains his iron grip on 1st place with a best '5-out-of-7' average SUMSQ Error Z-score of -1.169. (delta: +0.045)

2nd Place: TQ (-0.833; delta: -0.102)
3rd Place: Shanabe (-0.826; delta: +0.094)



Complete data table @ the Contest web site.

SUMSQ errors for each contest snow storm are normalized with a 'Z-score'...then averaged to compute the standings. Forecasters who have entered at least 2/3 of all snow storm contests are included in the standings.

If a forecaster has participated in more than two-thirds of all snow storm contests...then Z-scores from their 'best two-thirds' forecasts are used to calculate interim and final standings. Same idea as dropping the lowest quiz score before the final grade is computed.

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