After the new episode airs, I'll post the correct answer in this thread, identify the winner, and send a private message to that individual. The winner has until the following Tuesday night (midnight) to contact me with their Payout Table for the following week. They can either post it in this thread or send me a private message if they want to be secretive.
If the winner doesn't contact me with their Payout Table by Tuesday night, I will create the next Payout Table instead.
Payout Table Rules
(These may change throughout the season when we get farther into the game.)
1. Your Table must have a ranking for all the potential rankings of the teams. Use the format that I use.
1st place -
2nd place -
3rd place -
4th place -
5th place -
6th place -
7th place -
8th place -
9th place -
(This is assuming they eliminate a team on Sunday.)
2. 1st place must be 2x and last place must be 0x.
3. The payout multipliers must decrease as you go down the rankings list.
Therefore, you can't do something like...
1st place - 2x
2nd place - 1.8x
3rd place - .3x
4th place - 1.2x
That would be pretty mean if you did do that anyway. We'll save that scenario for potentially later in the season.
4. The sum of the multipliers must equal the number of rankings. If there's 9 teams left next week, the multipliers have to add up to 9. If there's still 10, they have to add to 10.
1st place - 2x
2nd place - 1.8x
3rd place - 1.5x
4th place - 1.2x
5th place - 1x
6th place - .8x
7th place - .5x
8th place - .2x
9th place - 0x
2 + 1.8 + 1.5 + 1.2 + 1 + .8 + .5 + .2 + 0 = 9
Think of it as the good payouts balancing out the bad payouts.
5. No negative multiplier numbers. Man, why would you do that to a person?
6. Round each decimal to the tenths-point. No 1.24235245x payouts. 1.2x will do just fine, thank you.
If you follow these rules, your Payout Table will be accepted. You can do something as conservative as the one above, or as crazy as below:
1st place - 2x
2nd place - 1.9x
3rd place - 1.8x
4th place - .9x
5th place - .8x
6th place - .7x
7th place - .6x
8th place - .3x
9th place - 0x
Or maybe?
1st place - 2x
2nd place - 1.6x
3rd place - 1.5x
4th place - 1.4x
5th place - .9x
6th place - .8x
7th place - .7x
8th place - .1x
9th place - 0x
It's up to you!
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