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January 2012 Forecast Contest, Temperatures


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Hey, I was 3min late, how does 3min = 1hr?

Have to round it up... it was due at 11:59 and you went past the deadline, so a penalty of one hour was instated. If it went the other way, then you technically wouldn't be penalized for anything up to 12:58am (59 minutes past the deadline).

Of course, Mallow could be lenient and allow for the few minutes over... he's the one running this thing, after all. I'm just assessing it the way it would be without any leniency.

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Here's a simplified alternate scoring table for January that I can update for other months, to give participants some idea how they are doing -- this is not meant to replace the Mallow scoring system and it will be interesting to compare since that one is a little more statistically "rigorous" ... all I have done here is to score each of three cities out of 100 (to keep the totals similar to the eventual official scoring) with the error deduction being 2 pts for each 0.1 deg (so that forecasts five degrees out would score zero) . I have maintained the stated rules about late entries, in this case, three penalties were applied -- will check the wording in other months to establish those penalties. Time penalties are percentages of your scored points. Maybe the intent was percentage of possible (300) points, which would have wiped out two scores completely.

As stated, this is for guidance only and Mallow's scoring system will be the official guide.

January scoring, in order of finish...

Forecaster ......... DCA ,,, NYC ... BOS ... Total (with pen)

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Actual ................. 4.7 ..... 4.7 ..... 5.2

Uncle W .............. 96 ..... 96 ..... 86 ..... 278

forkyfork ............. 92 ..... 88 ..... 64 ..... 244

Inudaw ............... 70 ..... 84 ..... 86 ..... 240

weathafella ......... 76 ..... 72 ..... 78 ..... 226

Litchfieldlib'ns ......70 ..... 64 ..... 92 ..... 226

debeaches ......... 90 ..... 86 ..... 46 ..... 222

Roger Smith ....... 72 ..... 76 ..... 70 ..... 218

blizzardof09 ........ 76 ..... 82 ..... 54 ..... 212

ChicagoWX ......... 80 ..... 74 ..... 58 ..... 212

PSUHazletonwx.... 74 ..... 78 ..... 60 ..... 212

frivolousz21 ........ 98 ..... 70 ..... 42 ..... 210

goobagooba ....... 66 ..... 70 ..... 74 ..... 210

hudsonvalley21... 64 ..... 70 ..... 66 ..... 200

DonSutherland1... 66 ..... 66 ..... 62 ..... 194

MidloSnowMaker.. 68 ..... 64 ..... 62 ..... 194

Blizzard92 ........... 74 ..... 66 ..... 52 ..... 192

Derek Z .............. 66 ..... 66 ..... 56 ..... 188

hockeyinc .......... 66 ..... 60 ..... 62 ..... 188

Ellinwood ............ 60 ..... 64 ..... 60 ..... 184

Candyman CSG ... 54 ..... 68 ..... 62 ..... 184

Alpha5 ................ 98 ...... 50 ..... 36 ..... 184

timp .................... 50 ..... 62 ..... 64 ..... 176

Quakertown nesn..72 ..... 62 ..... 38 ..... 172

Bkviking .............. 70 ..... 50 ..... 50 ..... 170

MN Transplant .... 56 ..... 62 ..... 48 ..... 166

nzucker .............. 68 ..... 62 ..... 32 ..... 162

Kevin Druff ......... 60 ..... 56 ..... 46 ..... 162

Tom ................... 64 ..... 60 ..... 38 ..... 162

Consensus ......... 64 ..... 56 ..... 40 ..... 160

LakeEffectKing..... 58 ..... 52 ..... 48 ..... 158

Ian ..................... 54 ..... 50 ..... 44 ..... 148

CT Blizz .............. 88 ..... 44 ..... 16 ..... 148

showmethesnow.. 30 ..... 56 ..... 50 ..... 136

BethesdaWX ...... 80 ..... 40 ..... 10 ..... 130 (-1%) = 129

H20town_WX .... 46 ..... 44 ..... 30 ..... 120

SD .................... 46 ..... 36 ..... 22 ..... 104

Mallow .............. 24 ..... 40 ..... 32 ..... 096

Qvectorman ...... 34 ..... 32 ..... 12 ..... 078

MariettaWX ....... 40 ..... 36 ..... 00 ..... 076

Pottercounty ..... 32 ..... 26 ..... 06 ..... 064

StatenWx .......... 20 ..... 34 ..... 06 ..... 060

HeatMiser ......... 04 ..... 20 ..... 32 ..... 056

Feb ................... 28 ...... 16 ..... 06 ..... 050

blazes556 ......... 72 ..... 34 ..... 06 ..... 112 (-64%) = 41

RunawayIceberg 28 ..... 12 ..... 00 ..... 040

skierinvermont .. 66 ..... 62 ..... 52 ..... 180 (-85%) = 27

Snow88 ............ 16 ..... 00 ..... 00 ..... 016

Rodney ............ 06 ..... 06 ..... 00 ..... 012

NORMAL ........... 06 ..... 06 ..... 00 ..... 012

okie333 ............ 00 ..... 00 ..... 00 ..... 000

This was a table of entries that Ellinwood posted during the month ... I used it to generate the above.

Will work on Feb and Mar some time Thursday, and try to update to end of March so you'll have some idea how you're doing.

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