Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Winter '24 / '25 - 26th Annual 'Regular Season' Snowfall Forecast Contest: Interim Standings #1

DC
20-MAR-1924

After 3 contest-worthy snow storms ... under the ‘two-thirds’ rule  … forecasters who have entered at least 2 forecasts are included in Interim Standings #1.

Complete interim statistics tables and a chart at the Contest/s web site (direct link)
Forecaster statistics for Winter '24 / '25 contest snow storms (direct link)

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SUMSQ errors for each Contest snow storm are normalized / standardized) by computing a 'Z-score' ... then averaged ... and ranked to compute the standings.

If a forecaster has issued forecasts for more than two-thirds of all snow storm contests ... then Z-scores from their 'best two-thirds' forecasts are used to calculate the Interim and Final standings.

 

 

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