After points took a tremendous plunge mid rally when Hirvonen, Atkinson and Gronholm dropped out of the top eight, the final stages saw the latter two return and the points rise a bit. It gave dnbn and D82 a joint victory with Makarias and myself sharing third. Congrats to Mak for his 20th career podium!
For dnbn that also means the lead in the championship with Moanaman following two behind and the rest of the field not far behind.
Awarding points for each guess gives the following expected result:
1. Loeb 110 (20.15%)
2. Gronholm 102 (18.68%)
3. Solberg 72 (13.19%)
4. Hirvonen 60 (10.99%)
5. Stohl 36 (6.59%)
6. Atkinson 26 (4.76%)
7. Pons 25 (4.58%)
8. H.Solberg 9 (1.65%)
=. Galli 9 (1.65%)
10. Sordo 8 (1.47%)
11. Gardemeister 7 (1.28%)
12. Tejada 1 (0.18%)
=. Sarrazin 1 (0.18%)
=. Rovanpera 1 (0.18%)
=. Arai 1 (0.18%)
Results:
B. AverageBot (10/8/6/0/5/0/8/2) 39
1. dnbn (10/8/6/0/5/0/8/2) 39
=. D82 (10/8/6/0/5/0/8/2) 39
3. Makarias (10/8/6/4/0/0/8/2) 38
=. Marcel Schot (8/8/5/4/0/0/10/3) 38
5. Schuting Star (8/8/6/0/5/0/8/1) 36
6. SkorbiF1 (10/8/5/0/0/0/10/2) 35
7. mikko-ville (8/5/8/6/6/0/0/1) 34
8. IMHO (8/8/5/5/5/0/0/1) 32
9. windsok (10/5/5/4/0/0/5/2) 31
=. Moanaman (8/8/0/0/6/0/8/1) 31
11. race addicted (10/8/5/0/5/0/0/2) 30
=. Ric Bol (10/8/0/0/0/0/10/2) 30
B. LazyBot (8/0/10/4/0/0/6/1) 29
Points scored per driver:
1. Loeb 128
2. Solberg 98
3. Atkinson 89
4. Stohl 73
5. H.Solberg 42
6. Sordo 27
7. Gronholm 24
8. Mac Hale 0
Overall standings after 3/16 rounds:
1. dnbn 99
2. Moanaman 97
B. LazyBot 97
B. AverageBot 97
3. Marcel Schot 96
=. D82 96
5. Makarias 95
6. mikko-ville 93
7. windsok 91
8. Schuting Star 87
9. SkorbiF1 86
=. IMHO 86
11. Ric Bol 84
12. race addicted 80
* = did not compete in all rounds
The bots
We have 2 bots playing with us. LazyBot guesses the current championship standings, taking into account only those drivers who are entered into the rally. AverageBot guesses the average guess of all participants, as shown above.
Rules
The rules are fairly simple. All you have to do is predict the top 8 for the upcoming rally in the simple format of
your username/dvr1/dvr2/dvr3/dvr4/dvr5/dvr6/dvr7/dvr8
Scoring is done on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
10 points scored if your driver finishes in the position predicted, 8 points if your selection finishes 1 place away (i.e. 1st or 3rd when you said second), all the way down to 1 point if your selection finishes 7 places away. No points will be awarded if your selection finishes outside the points positions or if he retires from the rally.
A 20 point bonus will be awarded if you get them all correct, so you can in theory score 100 in each round.
Results will be posted at the end of each rally as soon as possible (can be an hour, can be 2 days, depending on whether I'm near a computer).
Entries must be in before the start of the first stage of the rally.
Spain
Post your entries below. The rally starts on Friday, March 24, 2006 at 06:45 local time (GMT+1).
Entry list
So that's definitely a questionmark on Gardemeister on that entrylist then.
