Games

Last summer I got interested in fantasy football again. I was interested in creating a game with three properties: A casual to play game, didn’t necessarily involve a lot of time or effort Based around simply goals scored, so no complicated scoring system for stats and no rating system for performances Players were unlikely to converge on the same team, or even one or two “must picks” The game is self-regulating To explain the third point, typically in a fantasy football game, each player is assigned a cost, and the goal is to select a squad of players within a particular budget. One issue is that this requires someone to assign each player a cost, so the game server requires an oracle. If the oracle is incorrectly setup you can break number 2 because where the oracle is wrong it suggests a ‘correct’ squad. It is easy to make a player either a “must pick” if you have priced them too cheaply, or a “cannot pick” if you have priced them too expensively. ...

I haven’t ever spoken about the scoring system we use on pole prediction to grade Formula One predictions. There are two systems and I’m particularly fond of the one we use for the season predictions. But first let me explain the session (qualifying, race, etc.) scoring which is a relic of an old game we played before I developed pole prediction. This was first played on reddit. Session Scoring The scoring system is relatively simple, you order the top-ten drivers and for each driver you predicted to be in the top-ten you get: ...