Thanks for the feedback everyone! Here's what Morgoth and I decided to do based on the comments and our own thoughts.

Character Battle 6 Oracle Challenge scoring system

Every match, your score will be 50 - (w + x + y + z)/4, where the letters are the % off you are for each character. This could be expressed more simply as:

50 - (Average % off)

By using a 50 point scale, we keep the scoring kind of similar to what everyone's used to, which is a good thing. Subtracting by the average % wrong instead of the total should keep the scores from going too low (Essentially, we're giving you 50-x for each character, which was the old system, and then averaging that).

This time around we're going to try not penalizing people for having the wrong winners. A number of the comments were in favor of that, but additionally, it makes things a LOT simpler. I think having rules that are easy to understand, and make it easier for us to run the contest, is worth this departure from tradition. Also, remember that someone who gets the order wrong is already going to be losing points because their predictions have to be off.

The prediction topic will be up later today!
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