Well, it's not as if I wait until the last minute. I haven't found the time (mainly forgotten about it), I think it takes me like 30-45min to set up some decent predictions. Haven't been on VGC much lately.

It typically takes me 20 minutes to put a prediction together. If I know I won't have time that week, then I put them in during the weekend. I used to put my numbers in whenever, but now I prefer to wait til 1 hour before solely so people can't copy me. It also gives me time to double check my entry and make sure I didn't botch something.

hmm if im lucky this week is a huge money maker ^^

Nordlead.

I think most of us look at others prediction numbers, maybe not copy but atleast look what they have predicted before they predict their own.

I look at the average, but only for picking how much I want to bet. If I end up picking the average, then there is no reason to bet more than $5 as the payoff is minimal, so I move the money elsewhere.

 I admit before i predicted i looked what others had predicted including u, but i also looked at Hw and Sw chartz before that but this happens usually if i can enter really late.

just for fun I thought I'd post this.

Sonic and the Black Knight released in Japan (acording to famitsu) to 4.1k sales. So long as VGChartz is <5k there are only 7 people who managed to get a non-0% accuracy out of 49. IF the payout scheme is exactly as the how to play page describes, then the payout for these members should be huge. So I did some calculations and here are the biggest winners with a 1% average accuracy, because you can't divide by 0 so obviously there must be some form of cap as I doubt I'll be winning 39k

Nordlead.

Should be easy money, not for me though i predicted 40k :) guess Japan dosent like Sonic anymore.

You'll have to wait till tonight for the full details. Here are some notes on the this weeks results (Weekly America Chart, 28th February 2009)

Total Won = 872
Most Won = 1,355 (nordlead)
Average Won = 9.58
Least Won = -485 (antfromtashkent)

Highest Accuracy = 77.57 (Leonidus)
Average Accuracy = 38.73
Lowest Accuracy = 0.00 (7 people)

Highest Winnings Ratio = 33.1 (scottie)
Average Winnings Ratio = 2.08
Lowest Winnings Ratio = -78.67 (nextdreamnach)

Top 5 each category

Winnings Ratio

• scottie
• matt247
• nordlead
  
• non-gravity
• Christhor

Winnings

• nordlead
  
• oliist
• Dgc1808
• Tbone
• Christhor
  

Accuracy

• shrimp_boy11
• matt247
• non-gravity
• Veki
  
• Christhor

People who made all 3 top 5's

• Christhor
  

Weekly Ranking

This round was pretty bad for me.