Originally Posted by
Corona Gigante
Bill, you're really clutching at straws here. You think you can still see flaws in my procedure for determining the winner, but you don't seem to be willing to offer solutions or even to define the problem clearly enough for me to fix it.
The tiebreaker rule is the first one I came up with that seemd fair. That it acts to encourage people to get their entires in earlier rather than later is obviously an attractive feature, but if you can offer an alternative, I would like to hear it.
Please explain how diz has a better chance of winning than justin. I don't see it. Maybe there's a mistake in the procedure I outlined or maybe I just didn't make it clear enough. BTW, I have no idea who either of these guys are and I think they would probably tell you the same thing.
I think I see what you mean about assigning you 44 or 1 and assigning someone else 43 and 2. That would make a difference to your chance of winning but it doesn't seem like a very significant difference and, if I understand your point, it would only come into play if none of the other assigned numbers come up in the lottery drawing. The chance of that happening decreases as the number of entrants increases.
Tell you what. Say you'll enter and I'll let you pick your own number, so long as it's not already assigned. You have to promise me that if you win, you'll not tell any lies about the contents of the package I send you.
I think what you've missed is that in some ways the best possible outcome for me is that you enter and win. Not because I think you might stop post-stalking me (although I can't say I would miss it much) but that it would be pretty conclusive evidence of my integrity. I don't particularly care how many times you call me a POS or whatever--water off a duck's back, mate--I've been called worse than that by better than you--but I would be deeply wounded if I thought you doubted my integrity.
If you don't see that, maybe you're not anywhere as near intelligent as you give yourself credit for being.
) in 44 chance of winning while the guy with #27 has a 24 in 44 chance in winning. That is NOT "50-50" unless your calculator is broken. The guy with #14 has a 45-55 chance of winning and the guy with #27 has a 55-45 chance of winning. If you can't understand that, write the numbers 1 - 44 on a sheet of paper and follow that up by putting the name of the winner next to each number. It's highly unlikely that in your continued quest of wanting to start trouble with me you will ever see that I'm right and you're wrong but that shouldn't surprise anyone here since you're too arrogant and too much of an asshole to ever admit you're wrong.
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