Burniel
Roller Poster
Hello everyone!
I've been spending a lot of time trying to devise the best possible method of compiling a modern-day Mitch Hawker style coaster poll. I read this thread with great interest, and was disappointed to see that it seemingly didn't come to anything in the end. I've therefore designed a system which takes heavy inspiration from both Mitch Hawker and the ideas expressed in that thread, which I believe (and testing has proved) is quite possibly the closest we're going to get to a fair and relatively easy to use system.
The system is based on Elo and, like Mitch Hawker, is pair-based, such that a certain number of Elo points are transferred every time a coaster is ranked above another in someone's list. The advantages to the Elo system is that it doesn't matter how many times a coaster is submitted, nor how many coasters each person submits, as every coaster and viewpoint has a chance.
The plan is for people to submit their top x coasters (with x being whatever the user desires, provided it's at least 15). Standard procedures to keep the list tidy will be in place, such as kiddie coasters are out, clones are only listed once, etc. The list is a combination of wood and steel. Coasters won't be included in the formal list until they reach five riders. In an attempt to make this as user-friendly as possible, if you don't want to have to filter out clones etc, just send me a copy of list/spreadsheet/whatever and I'm happy to sort it.
Obviously, those who have a very large number of credits may not wish to rank them all from start to end. Therefore, after a list of your top x coasters, please simply assign the rest of your coasters a category from the following:
Submissions are accepted from now, and a closing date will be decided as and when necessary. Hopefully we can make something out of this!![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
-Dan
I've been spending a lot of time trying to devise the best possible method of compiling a modern-day Mitch Hawker style coaster poll. I read this thread with great interest, and was disappointed to see that it seemingly didn't come to anything in the end. I've therefore designed a system which takes heavy inspiration from both Mitch Hawker and the ideas expressed in that thread, which I believe (and testing has proved) is quite possibly the closest we're going to get to a fair and relatively easy to use system.
The system is based on Elo and, like Mitch Hawker, is pair-based, such that a certain number of Elo points are transferred every time a coaster is ranked above another in someone's list. The advantages to the Elo system is that it doesn't matter how many times a coaster is submitted, nor how many coasters each person submits, as every coaster and viewpoint has a chance.
The plan is for people to submit their top x coasters (with x being whatever the user desires, provided it's at least 15). Standard procedures to keep the list tidy will be in place, such as kiddie coasters are out, clones are only listed once, etc. The list is a combination of wood and steel. Coasters won't be included in the formal list until they reach five riders. In an attempt to make this as user-friendly as possible, if you don't want to have to filter out clones etc, just send me a copy of list/spreadsheet/whatever and I'm happy to sort it.
Obviously, those who have a very large number of credits may not wish to rank them all from start to end. Therefore, after a list of your top x coasters, please simply assign the rest of your coasters a category from the following:
- Good, but didn't make my list.
- Okay, didn't do loads for me.
- Bad, a very unenjoyable experience, I hated it.
Submissions are accepted from now, and a closing date will be decided as and when necessary. Hopefully we can make something out of this!
-Dan
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