This will still start this week R9, based on AFL/EFC match report named best players - as already advised.
However, I need to change the amount paid. I previously said it would be the greater of:
1% of the total value all Panic Dollars investments - this week it would be 1% x $39.2k = $392
Or 5% of each Gamer’s investment in that player.
However, once I set up the algorithm and looked at a few examples there were a few problems. The payment is probably a little too big and might distort player investment too much, and 5% of each Gamer’s investment will almost always be the lesser term.
So I have a new formula as follows - each investment in a “best player” for that round will get a bonus payment equal to:
Total value all Panic Dollars investments x 0.5% x (25% + 75% x (Rank - 1) / (Total no of Gamers - 1)).
This will increase through the year, as the total of all invested funds grows.
Rank refers to the Gamer’s Rank at the start of that round. Gamers at the bottom of the rankings will get a larger best players bonus payment than those Gamers higher up the rankings.
This is in accordance with principles espoused by Gil when giving the keynote at the recent Gamerunners conference at FIFA HQ in Zurich which I attended. One of Gil’s main sections was titled “blessed are the tin-rattlers, throw them a few bucks and they will let you get away with anything”.
The podium 3 will stay although the order will change. @benny and @skip27 are the biggest climbers.
The only new investments to miss this week were by @nhanlon and @redbull on Mutch and Green respectively. Unfortunately they were both stress locks so they will hurt for a while.
Well best players bonus was only announced after you had both locked in your Trauma (R7) - so I don’t think you can make any call on who knows what they are doing, and who doesn’t.
I think we have to accept that 80% of players named as bests will be OK, and 20% will be a bit random/debatable. But the payment amounts are relatively small, and randomness should even out over the year. So these bonuses are not going to influence who wins the game or not.
