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BSBO Scoring

This score reflects every weekend box office total through the date 2/13/2012.

Rank Previous Contestant S2 Wk 23 Results Average
1 1 Lena 21 22
2 2 BD 21 21.82
3 3 Scott 21 21.48
4 4 Tad 21 21.35
5 5 Cougron 21 21.24
6 7 Jeff 23 21
7 6 Tony 16 20.74
8 9 Monty 23 20.67
9 8 Tom 17.94‡ 20.20
10 10 Marc 19 20.14
11 12 Jonathan 23 19.52
12 11 Andrew 21 19.48
13 13 Uriah 19 19.18
14 15 Father Beast 14 18.39
15 20 daHobbit 22 18*
16 16 Art 15 17.95
17 17 Mrs. Beast 14 17.57
18 18 Menolly 18 17.29
19 14 Goose Girl 13 17*
20 19 William 15 16.67

* – Average score is based on less than 5 weekly results. Individuals marked with an asterisk (*) who have not participated in 5 consecutive weeks will become de-listed until they resume participation. Any previous scores will be applied when participation resumes.

Scoring is determined by taking a base score of 25 points. From that base, one point is subtracted for each position that that the person is under or over the movie finished that week. The points are double for the selection of the first place movie.

For example: Tony selects:

  1. Superman: The Movie
  2. Star Wars
  3. Empire Strikes Back
  4. Return of the Jedi
  5. Star Trek

When the weekend totals (Friday through Sunday – regardless of long holiday weekends) come in they have the following ranking:

  1. Empire Strikes Back
  2. Star Wars
  3. Superman: The Movie
  4. Star Trek
  5. Return of the Jedi

Points for Tony’s picks would be as follows:

Superman: The Movie – Tony picked this as #1, it’s actual box office position was #3, he would have lost 2 points for being off by two positions, but instead he loses 4 points because points for the #1 selection are doubled. (-4)

Star Wars – Tony picked this in the #2 position and it was! (0)

Empire Strikes Back – Tony ‘s pick was #3 and it was actually #1.  Two points for being two positions off. (-2)

Return of the Jedi – Tony selected this for #4 and it was actually #5. (-1)

Star Trek – Tony was off by one on this one too. (-1)

Tony’s score for the week would be 25-4-2-1-1 or… 17.  The old way we did scoring, Tony would have had one of the five positions correct (Star Wars) and would have gotten a 20%.

‡ - In season two, we’ve adopted a new ruling that if you miss a week you will be scored with the lesser of the weekly average score minus one or your average score minus one. You will get two “mulligans” to use for these scores which will result in no score being counted for or against you that week.

Note: Amongst the hosts we agreed that should anyone ever get a negative score… well, we agreed that there was a hard floor of 0 (zero) points.  We never thought we’d have to use that stipulation so it was never published. Well… never say never.

9 Comments

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  • 1 Jonathan // Feb 23, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    We should post the current week’s results, what total each of us pulled down, ‘cuz I don’t like doing teh maths.

  • 2 cougron // Apr 11, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    Are there any deductions for when a movie is not in your picks?

  • 3 Tony // Apr 11, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    Nope, we figure you are getting enough of a penalty because that means you have a movie that isn’t in the top five in your picks.

  • 4 Jonathan // Apr 18, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    We should add a Hall of Fame section, with notable achievements. Lowest Score. First Perfect Score by a Non-Host. Quarterly Winners. That kind of thing.

  • 5 Uriah // Apr 20, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    I would be excited to be in the Hall of Fame. Lowest Score! WOOOHOOO!

  • 6 Father Beast // May 2, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    If we have a hall of fame, Menolly would make it for: First person to have a negative score for the weekend.

    She is ticked.

  • 7 cougron // Sep 14, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    I had an idea for two new numbers to include with the scores though they might not be as useful with the new ‘forced’ scores for people who miss too many weeks.

    First would be the total number of weeks the contestant has participated in during the season. The second would be the total cumulative score for all the weeks participated in. (i.e. if one has 2 scores of 22 and 25, the cumulative score would be 47.) Neither would count towards the ranking, but might help put some peoples rank into perspective.

  • 8 Tony // Sep 14, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    Perhaps a number for “Weeks of Active participation”? I’ll have to see what makes the most sense.

    Thanks for the suggestion.

  • 9 CougRon // Sep 15, 2011 at 1:38 am

    oh, by the way, are the final scores from the previous season archived somewhere? I don’t see a link on the scoring page.

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