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sqbr: A cartoon cat saying Ham! (ham!)
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 10:11 am
So, you know how I'm doing work footy tipping and really suck at it?

Well I changed my strategy to always pick the ugliest team flag (rather than the prettiest) and did so much better that I actually won the tipping for a particular week. It must admit was a lot of fun telling people how I chose the teams when they asked how I'd guessed such unlikely winners correctly :D I went from being the worst tipper by a huge margin to second from the bottom! The ignomy! Look how much less worse I'm doing overall!:



Still, at least I've sunk back down to bottom of the work ladder again now. I'm much more comfortable there.
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sqbr: A happy dragon on a pile of books (bookdragon)
Friday, May 30th, 2008 10:28 am
So, my work runs footy tipping, and pretty much everyone does it. Being even more sport phobic than your average nerd (seriously, I'm incredibly unco, I've come last in every athletic competiton I ever competed in) I resisted for quite a while but everyone was like "It's not like real sport. Even with random gueses you're bound to win a prize eventually. And c'mon..mathsiness!"

So, under protest, I joined in, and ranked teams based on the prettiness of their flags.

And this is the result:


And I'd be lower, but I keep forgetting to tip and so get given the baseline score of 4/8 (when I guess I tend to get 2/8. Yes, worse than random chance)

I'm quite proud of myself really :)
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