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Vote Thread for Ack's Omake Corner

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JKR said:
I'm willing to trade slots 1-4 for equivalent votes for Slippery Slope or Alea Iacta Est.
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Alea Iacta Est - 2 for MirrorVerse?

Edit: Already made deals this round of voting, but would you be open to a permanent trade starting next round? Alea Iacta Est - 4 in exchange for MirrorVerse - 4?
 
[X] Recoil - 6
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 5
[X] Trump Card - 4
[X] War Games - 3
[X] Wyvern - 2
[X] I, Panacea - 1
 
[X] I, Panacea - 6
[X] Recoil - 5
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
[X] Hostage Situation - 3
[X] Wyvern - 2
[X] Meet the Heberts - 1
 
Anaja said:
Alea Iacta Est - 2 for MirrorVerse?

Edit: Already made deals this round of voting, but would you be open to a permanent trade starting next round? Alea Iacta Est - 4 in exchange for MirrorVerse - 4?
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Agreed

nobodez said:
I'm already doing Slippery Slope, but I can do a 3 point AIE trade.
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I assume you want Really Bad End? Added.

Snake/Eater said:
i'm willing to put a 3 or a 1 Alea Iacta Est in exchange for MirrorVerse.
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Looks like I might miss you this round, but I added MirrorVerse anyway.
 
[X] Recoil - 6
[X] Security! - 5
[X] I, Panacea - 4
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] Junior Hero - 1
 
[X] NSW - 4
[X] Danny & Taylor - 3
[X] Wyvern - 5
[X] Meet the Heberts - 6
[X] Security! - 2
[X] Trump Card - 1
 
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Okay, that's good enough I guess. It'll be a slightly lower turnout than normal, but what the hey. I'm hereby tallying votes.

Voting is CLOSED.
 
Vote 83: War Games
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    • Thanks, as always, for voting.

    Voting points this round: 1245

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    The new vote counting system is awesome. That is all.


    On to the main event.

    Alea Iacta Est 224
    All Alone 668
    Bait & Switch 654
    Confrontation II 441
    Danny & Taylor 808
    Hostage Situation 162
    I, Panacea 1039
    Junior Hero 884
    Meet the Heberts 556
    MirrorVerse 1076
    NSW 884
    Nemesis 657
    One More Trigger 214
    Really Bad End 1071
    Recoil 798
    Security! 1094
    Slippery Slope 246
    Trump Card 93
    War Games 0 (1244)
    Wyvern 694

    [If you want to know which of these stories is NSFW, check the first post of the thread..]

    And next round, it's almost certain to be the next installment of War Games, featuring Geneva Hastings and her Polity crew, fresh to Brockton Bay and Earth Bet, five hundred years and a few universes out of sync. Following that, I see Security! as having a good chance, perhaps followed by I, Pancea and MirrorVerse and maybe NSW before Really Bad End gets a go on.
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    Security! is still looking good. We have three others in the thousand range, but it does look like poor Really Bad End is going to be lapped by a couple more before its turn. Ah well.

    Anyway, time will tell. Thanks for reading.


    Check out Jim Starluck 's spreadsheet for a reasonable prediction.
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    Note also that the vote counting script given to me by Throne3d was of huge assistance.

    Anyway, thanks again for voting, and I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoy writing them.


    For anyone who hasn't voted on this thread before, the voting rules go as follows:

    1) UP TO six votes. I will not count anything extra, and a write-in will likely be ignored (if I want to write a different story, I will, but at my own discretion). Suggestions are welcome, but I am under no obligation to carry them out. And just remember, the more stories I am writing, the longer it will take for your favourites to roll back around.
    2) First vote is worth six points, second is worth five, and so on.
    3) You can't vote twice on the same story. The voting code will count the last vote and ignore previous ones.
    4) If I say "Voting is CLOSED", then this post comes up, with "Voting is OPEN" at the bottom, then you can vote again.
    5) If I say "Voting will continue", it's still the same voting period. Voting has not restarted. You can not vote a second time.
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    Vote format looks like this:

    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 6
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] Security! - 4
    [X] Recoil - 3
    [X] Trump Card - 2
    [X] NSW - 1

    Specifically: SQUARE brackets around an X, one space, and please spell at least the first word of the name of the story properly. Number of voting points comes last. Please try to format your vote properly, so as not to confuse the vote counter.
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    Thank you.

    Voting is OPEN.
     
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    • [X] Security! - 6
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] Wyvern - 4
    [X] One More Trigger - 3
    [X] Trump Card - 2
    [X] War Games - 1
     
    [X] Security! - 6
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] NSW - 4
    [X] Recoil - 3
    [X] Trump Card - 2
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 1
     
    [X] Junior Hero - 6
    [X] Confrontation II - 5
    [X] Meet the Heberts - 4
    [X] One More Trigger - 3
    [X] Wyvern - 2
    [X] NSW - 1
     
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 6
    [X] Recoil - 5
    [X] Trump Card - 4
    [X] Security! - 3
    [X] Junior Hero - 2
    [X] Nemesis - 1
     
    [X] NSW - 6
    [X] Danny & Taylor - 5
    [X] Meet the Heberts - 4
    [X] Security! - 3
    [X] I, Panacea - 2
    [X] Slippery Slope - 1
     
    [X] Marky's Angels - 13
    [X] Trump Card - 6
    [X] Hostage Situation - 5
    [X] One More Trigger - 4
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
    [X] Wyvern - 2
    [X] Recoil - 1
    [] I, Panacea
    [] Security!
     
    Over the last couple days I've made several improvements to my prediction system, which has fully-automated my predictions and also allows me to roll it back to any arbitrary vote in the past, and see what the prediction would've been from that point in time. I used this to plot out the predictions of both Model A and Model B over the entire time that Ack's been holding votes for his stories, going back to mid-December last year. I'd hoped to see which model was more accurate so I could pick between one, but...

    ...turns out they're not very different.

    I tracked two averages: the number of votes a model predicted correctly, and the number of votes it predicted right in a row. For example, predicting from Vote 73, model B correctly predicted the next two stories, got the next two wrong, then got the next 5 right. Going by the total number of correct predictions it got 7 right, but by the correct predictions in a row it only got 2.

    So, the totals are as such:

    Average correct predictions:
    - Model A: 5.213
    - Model B: 5.096

    Average correct predictions in a row:
    - Model A: 3.160
    - Model B: 3.255

    Based on these results... I think I'm going to continue using Model A going forward. The slight edge Model B has at predicting correctly in a row is less than the edge Model A has for total correct predictions. Additionally, since I started tracking the margin of victory for each prediction, I can guess a little more accurately when something might upset the calculated winner.

    I'm still going to keep Model B on the books, and every so often revisit these averages, just in case it cleans up its act. But I'll only report on the results of Model A here in the thread.



    With that in mind, here are this round's predictions:

    Vote 84 is probably going to Security! unless someone mounts a determined campaign to stop it. It's been projected to win by a margin of around 30 votes for a while now, and it hasn't shifted much as we get close. Enough people taking it from 6 to 0 could change this, but personally I don't expect that to happen; it's been a pretty solid vote-getter for as long as I've been tracking them.

    The next several votes are all by pretty hefty margins. I, Panacea in Vote 85 by a margin of 60+, MirrorVerse in vote 86 by a margin in the 70s, Recoil in Vote 87 by more than a hundred and Wyvern in Vote 88 by almost as much.

    Then we get to Vote 89, where Really Bad End is estimated to pull ahead by the skin of its teeth -- winning by 1 vote. NSW is right behind it, though, and if it can't manage an upset will win Vote 90 by a margin of more than two hundred. Everyone's favorite Thinker team is back in Vote 91: Alea Iacta Est is expected to win by 110+ votes.

    Finally, we have another close race and a potential upset. All Alone is currently projected to win Vote 92 by a mere 4 votes, while recently-updated Trump Card is right behind it. As it stands Trump Card has to work its way back up from a vote reset, while All Alone has nearly 668 votes currently... but Trump Card has been earning twice as many votes on average, so it'll close the gap rapidly. We'll see if All Alone can stay ahead as we get closer.

    Past that point, estimated rounds-to-win are as follows:

    Alea Iacta Est: 9
    All Alone: 24
    Bait & Switch: 27
    Confrontation II: 4
    Danny & Taylor: 3
    Hostage Situation: 14
    I, Panacea: 5
    Junior Hero: 9
    Meet the Heberts: 2
    MirrorVerse: 18
    NSW: 19
    Nemesis: 16
    One More Trigger: 11
    Really Bad End: 44
    Recoil: 5
    Security!: 8
    Slippery Slope: 9
    Trump Card: 11
    War Games: 6
    Wyvern: 6

    Again, that's from Vote 93, not the current vote.

    Accuracy this round was 97.25% overall, with an average difference of 9 votes between projected and actual results. Most accurate was our newest winner, War Games, which came in exactly as predicted at 100% and 0 votes off. Least accurate proportionally was previous winner Trump Card, at only 83.78%. Least accurate in raw count was a tie between Trump Card and Recoil; both stories came in 18 votes shorter than expected.

    I think for my next upgrade I'm going to try and account for the post-victory drop-off in votes...



    My vote:
    [X] Meet the Heberts - 6
    [X] NSW - 5
    [X] War Games - 4
    [X] One More Trigger - 3
    [X] Security! - 2
    [X] Recoil - 1
     
    [X] Security! - 6
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
    [X] Confrontation II - 3
    [X] Wyvern - 2
    [X] All Alone - 1

    After reading Jim's predictions, I decided I might just switch my last vote to All Alone. At this point in time, I don't really need more Trump Card, and All Alone isn't a bad story and it'd be nice if it could update soon. I'll try to give it enough of an edge to clinch its vote.
     
    Monkey D. Funky said:
    After reading Jim's predictions, I decided I might just switch my last vote to All Alone. At this point in time, I don't really need more Trump Card, and All Alone isn't a bad story and it'd be nice if it could update soon. I'll try to give it enough of an edge to clinch its vote.
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    Do note that the vote it's predicted to win probably won't be until early January.
     
    [X] Meet the Heberts - 6
    [X] Danny & Taylor - 5
    [X] Really Bad End - 4
    [X] Trump Card - 3
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
    [X] Wyvern - 1
     
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