well, the loses weren't as bad as we were predicting. I don't know why, but I do know that the equation listed on the how to play page is obviously wrong.

Anyways, I paid out since I wanted people to be able to invest in the next round. I'll be posting the results shortly.

edit: oh, and it is really bad when only 4 people don't lose money

Great, Brett had compassion and tweaked the payment system!!!

So, instead of losing the expected 1.4K, I lost "only" $700. I can take that. I'm still the biggest loser of the round

zexen_lowe said: Great, Brett had compassion and tweaked the payment system!!! So, instead of losing the expected 1.4K, I lost "only" $700. I can take that. I'm still the biggest loser of the round

I know there is a cap for how much you can make on a bet. I have a feeling there is the same exact cap that prevents you from losing too much. I was spot on my prediction for how much I was going to lose. Only the extreme losers did better than I expected, and a TWRoO somehow lost money.

Here are some notes on the this weeks results (Weekly America Chart, 11th April 2009)

Total Won = -5,873 (lost more this week, than was won in total last week, also the first overall league lost in PL history)
Most Won = 172 (MetalGearSolid_4ever)
Average Won = -133
Least Won = -757 (zexen_lowe)

Highest Accuracy = 72.08 (juttyX2)
Average Accuracy = 45.13
Lowest Accuracy = 0.02 (Araknie87)

Highest Winnings Ratio = 16.23 (MetalGearSolid_4ever)
Average Winnings Ratio = -10.58
Lowest Winnings Ratio = -71.67 (Araknie87)

Top 5 each category

Winnings Ratio

• MetalGearSolid_4ever
• juttyX2
• BHR-3
  
• antfromtashkent
  
• Tbone
  

Winnings

• MetalGearSolid_4ever
  
• BHR-3
• juttyX2
• antfromtashkent
• GhizmoGames94
  

Accuracy

• juttyX2
• oliist
• Tbone
• Fel_Br
  
• nordlead

People who made all 3 top 5's

• juttyX2

Weekly Ranking

some more interesting notes

* only 2 of the top 10 most accurate predictors made money. They made VG$33 between themselves, while the rest lost a grand total of VG$2091

* the median accuracy was 9 points higher than the mean, but everyone just put their money on the wrong items.

* more was lost this week than all of last week.

* 3 people made money, 1 broke even, and 40 lost money.

* the "high rollers" (those who bet >=1k) lost VG$3,895 combined, with only 1 person making money.

OK, we all had fun with this week, laughing at our failures. This week was an "oddball" that I hope will never repeat again (or if it does, I hope I make money when the rest fail )
Now, time to move on and make some money because I have some people I wanna catch up to

OP updated.

I have to say, this was a very interesting week. More movement in the charts than we have seen in a long time.

as a note, oliist passed zexen in LTD winnings this week, so the top 10 LTD looks like this

Oli passed me or I slipped under oli? It's not like he earned much money to pass me this round

Oh, well, another one that I won't be able to catch

you have about the same amount of VG$ as I do, and you double his winning ratio. If you can keep your winning ratio high you only need to bet half of what he does.

I will be on this list soon I hope :D