Tom's Oscar Contest
Final Standings 2008
Maximum possible points = 132
Last Award = Best Picture (20 points)
Last Winner = No Country For Old Men
Last update: Sun Feb 24 20:45:57 PST 2008
| NAME | SCORE | RANK | LAST AWARD | FINISH |
|---|
| Lance Elko | 102 | 1 | hit | First Place Prize |
| Ezra Olson | 95 | 2 | hit | Second Place Prize |
| William Chin | 93 | 3 | hit | ------- |
| Computer Average | 90 | 4 | hit | ineligible |
| Brad Null | 87 | 5 | hit | ------- |
| Kathy Yakal | 87 | 5 | hit | ------- |
| Richard Mansfield | 87 | 5 | hit | ------- |
| Caroline Lock | 85 | 6 | hit | ------- |
| Matt Firme | 80 | 7 | hit | ------- |
| Christopher Null | 79 | 8 | hit | ------- |
| Tom Halfhill | 70 | 9 | miss | ------- |
| Robert Lock | 67 | 10 | miss | ------- |
| Allison Hensley | 66 | 11 | hit | ------- |
| Irene Rush | 64 | 12 | hit | ------- |
| Kay Minis | 63 | 13 | hit | ------- |
| Mike Sweeney | 61 | 14 | miss | ------- |
| Tim Midkiff | 58 | 15 | hit | ------- |
| Dennis Barker | 54 | 16 | miss | ------- |
| Jerry Thompson | 52 | 17 | miss | ------- |
| Chrissie Loomis | 49 | 18 | miss | ------- |
| Bryan Farmer | 48 | 19 | miss | ------- |
| Diane Wei Zhang | 39 | 20 | miss | ------- |
| Computer Random | 38 | 21 | miss | ineligible |
| Udo Flohr | 33 | 22 | miss | ------- |
| Irene Chang | 32 | 23 | miss | ------- |
| Marcia Diefendorff | 29 | 24 | miss | ------- |
| Margaret Brannon | 26 | 25 | miss | ------- |
| Kathy Turley | 26 | 25 | miss | ------- |
| Computer Booby | 25 | 26 | miss | ineligible |
| Lisa Wang | 23 | 27 | miss | ------- |
| George Campbell | 19 | 28 | miss | ------- |
| George Miller | 19 | 28 | miss | ------- |
| David Hensley | 10 | 29 | miss | ------- |
| Leslie Mizell | 3 | 30 | miss | ------- |
| Amy Helen Johnson | 2 | 31 | miss | Booby Prize |
Computer Average is a computer-generated contestant created by Tom's OscarCalc program. It represents the mode average of the ballots entered by the human contestants -- the nominees selected the most often. Computer Average tries to attain the highest possible score, and has done so in past contests.
Computer Booby is a second computer-generated contestant. It represents the inverse mode average of the human contestants -- the nominees selected the least often. In this way, it tries to win the last-place Booby Prize.
Computer Random is a third computer-generated contestant. It enters a ballot by randomly choosing a nominee in each Oscar category. In other words, it fills out its ballot much as some human contestants do.