Duplicate Sheep - Reveal April 1st (no, seriously) - Page 2

Am new to this type of sheep and wondering why grouping is needed?

As long as each entrant has 20 answers, and 10 are duplicates, wont it just reveal as a 20 question sheep???

Grouping is generally needed when people leave similar but non identical answers. For instance if players 1 & 2 say "Jesus" and player 3 & 4 say "Jesus Christ" and player 5 says "Jesus of Nazareth" then usually they would all be grouped together by a mod as one of those options and each player would receive 5 points.

What makes this different is the duplicate part of things.

If valid answers to Q1 & Q2 were "Jesus" and valid answers to Q3 & Q4 were "Jesus Christ" and Q5 could have a valid answer of "Jesus" or "Jesus Christ" then some potentially tricky things could happen.

03-30-2016 , 07:08 AM

#27

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 39,746

8 entries in so far and hopefully a bunch more to come

rtspurs is the current holder of the

through the reveal with the wittiest PM subject line: "Dolly the Sheep"

03-30-2016 , 08:37 AM

#28

derwipok

Power Ranger

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 54,312

03-30-2016 , 08:52 AM

#29

CUcopper

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 106

easy game

03-30-2016 , 09:12 AM

#30

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 39,746

got a few more in now

this is shaping up to be a good one

03-30-2016 , 10:11 AM

#31

ArcticKnight

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 20,801

Quote:

Originally Posted by xander biscuits

ah .. got ya. I never thought about that type of grouping, as I just assumed all my answers are going to be one word each, thus no need for grouping.

03-30-2016 , 04:54 PM

#32

Steve Yzerman fan

*** VAGOS MAKES GOOD POINTS ***

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 33,019

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hero Value

I'll be surprised if noone has at least one duplicate answer that has no relation the question.

I think I have about 9 of these.

03-30-2016 , 05:04 PM

#33

JMurder3

not god, probably jebus

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 53,649

Too much talking about answers imo.

In.

03-30-2016 , 06:59 PM

#34

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Gifmeister

Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 14,058

03-30-2016 , 07:18 PM

#35

ArcticKnight

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 20,801

03-31-2016 , 08:18 AM

#36

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 39,746

BUMP

come on guys

surely it's in o'clock

03-31-2016 , 04:07 PM

#37

ILoveMyBrick

journeyman

Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 390

This seems hard (in a good way), (but) I'm not sure I have enough free time to come up with podium worthy answers

03-31-2016 , 04:21 PM

#38

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 39,746

Quote:

Originally Posted by ILoveMyBrick

This seems hard (in a good way), (but) I'm not sure I have enough free time to come up with podium worthy answers

There aren't too many ins yet and I figure that there are a bunch of people who are thinking the same as you.

This should be treated as a bit of fun and people should just wing it. Podium or not, it would make a fun/funny reveal.

03-31-2016 , 05:12 PM

#39

pwnsall

CFBBPC

Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 65,626

i entered relatively quickly if anyone wants a chance to knock off the two time sheep bracket champion

03-31-2016 , 05:48 PM

#40

Gamer Dude

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 23,474

in with 20 aces

03-31-2016 , 05:56 PM

#41

ILoveMyBrick

journeyman

Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 390

Quote:

Originally Posted by xander biscuits

Oh, don't get me wrong, I will enter for sure but I feel to get a really great set of answers would take 1hr+

I love the concept and it will be a fun reveal for sure

03-31-2016 , 06:26 PM

#42

ILoveMyBrick

journeyman

Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 390

In, ended up taking 30 mins for my quick entry

03-31-2016 , 07:08 PM

#43

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 39,746

16 in so far

If people leave this to the last minute to enter as usual then this is going to get messy

But that's fine by me...

03-31-2016 , 08:07 PM

#44

ArcticKnight

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 20,801

do you have a time deadline and reveal time?

03-31-2016 , 08:24 PM

#45

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 39,746

Quote:

Originally Posted by ArcticKnight

do you have a time deadline and reveal time?

completely depends on what time the missus goes to bed tomorrow night.

somewhere between 6pm and 10pm server time most probably

04-01-2016 , 06:19 AM

#46

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 39,746

It's the day of the reveal.

~half a day to get your answers in

04-01-2016 , 06:50 AM

#47

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,831

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwnsall

i entered relatively quickly if anyone wants a chance to knock off the two time sheep bracket champion

You honor us with your presence and your sick sheep skillz.

04-01-2016 , 07:30 AM

#48

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 39,746

We currently have 17 ins

pessimistic prediction: 20 ins
realistic prediction: 25 ins
optimistic prediction: 30 ins

04-01-2016 , 12:27 PM

#49

housenuts

1st Quartiled the 500

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 49,727

pessimistic winning score prediction: 30
realistic winning score prediction: 50
optimistic winning score prediction: 70

04-01-2016 , 12:53 PM

#50

ArcticKnight

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 20,801

Xander...One hour time make entry! Would play again, though. . Hard time took hour make entry was hard, again would play though, Xander.

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