Re: Amir Karger and Chris Dolan are locked in a gripping duel

Well, I'd place money on Amir to win if I were you.  I've spent an 
absurd number of evening hours trying to improve that score already, to 
little avail.  I have 33 working solutions that I've saved (only the 
best of those inflicted on the refs) with a mean score of 77.61 and a 
std dev of 8.69.    Not that the distribution is Gaussian, but my best 
is 1.6 std devs below the mean, which is resonable for N=33.  If I want 
to beat Rick, I'd likely need about 60 more solutions to hit that 
3-sigma regime.

Chris

P.S. mine is 63.526

On 11/18/02 1:28 AM, Andrew Savige wrote:
> As a humble spectator of this spine-tingling golfing theatre,
> I am amused in the extreme by this:
>   10  63.53  Amir Karger
>   10  63.53  Chris Dolan
> Mr Referees, can we have a more accurate tie-breaker please?
> Or are they really tied?
> 
> Actually, I shouldn't be smirking because they will both soon
> go sailing gaily past me on the Career Money Leaders Board:
> 14. Andrew Savige                           $   652,400.00 (8/12)
> 15. Chris Dolan                             $   631,400.00 (8/12)
> 16. Amir Karger                             $   591,466.66 (9/12)
> 
> Also, I can't help but notice that the scores seem more bunched
> up than usual this month.
> 
> /-\
> 
> 
> 
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