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Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon
 07/20/2006 12:00:16 PM · #1
In poker, I've read that more people playing leads to it taking better hands to win. Something about the more cards being in play, the more likely they come together to make rarer hands.

I wonder: has anyone analyzed DPC challenges that way? If there are more entries, do any of the following go up?
1) Max. score
2) Avg. of top 3? top 10? top 20?
3) Median score
4) Average score

I currently have a personal best in a challenge, so I was wondering whether that score tells me anything about where I might end up.

I know, I know - just wait a few days till it's over. But I'm a geek and so I wonder about stats. :)
Nikon D50
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 07/20/2006 12:50:44 PM · #2
Well... If DPC had a fixed resource that would work, but it's not the same as with poker. Poker you have a fixed resource called a deck of cards. There are only 52 possible cards you can get. Only one person at the table can have any given card.

Photography as art is like art as art. Hard to quantify. Person A has opinions about that differ from B through Z...

;)
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/20/2006 01:29:52 PM · #3
I have looked back at the last 6 months I believe and found that if you ribbon at less than 7.0 (or 6.9 especially) you are lucky. It happens, but not so often in the last 6 months.
Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 35mm f/2.0 IS USM
 07/20/2006 01:38:13 PM · #4
I agree with the Doc. Also, I haven't researched it, but it seems to me that the challenges with 500 entries score low compared with the obviously more difficult topic which only gets say 200 entries. But I could be wrong on that.

Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I have looked back at the last 6 months I believe and found that if you ribbon at less than 7.0 (or 6.9 especially) you are lucky. It happens, but not so often in the last 6 months.
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