On the night before the show, at 10:00pm, I will visit the website http://money.cnn.com/data/dow30/
This site will show the closing prices for the Dow Jones Industrial Average
stocks for that day.
The first 6 stocks there are
3m
Alcoa
Amex (American Express)
ATT (only for semis/finals)
BAC (Bank of America, only for semis/finals)
Boeing (only for semis/finals)
Each contestant is assigned a stock, which will be shown in the roster table
prior to that night.
I will take the two digits after the decimal point (essentially a random number
each day),
flip them (.31 will become 13), and that will be your score.The order of the
show
will be the order of your scores.
For example, say the closing data
was
Johnny Funnyguy ---3m 74.29
Jane Crazygirl ------Alcoa 23.54
Bob Wiseacre ------Amex 72.48
In this case, here would be the scores:
Johnny Funnyguy - 92
Jane Crazygirl - 45
Bob Wiseacre - 84
So the order would be Jane, Bob, Johnny.
In case of a tie, I will flip a flippin' coin.
WHY SO COMPLICATED?
I wanted a random number generated that was totally verifiable by the contestants.
And it needed
to be done before the show so the ballots could be pre-printed in the correct
order. This fits the bill.