Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Interim Standings

After three snow storms...donsutherland1 is in 1st Place with a hefty lead.

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SUMSQ errors are normalized with a 'Z-score' for each snow storm contest...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 computing the final grade.

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