Songfight: The Rockening

[Caravan Ray]

BLT: If your superpower is in your pants, are you saying that you have magic car keys?

I think it means he can talk through his arsehole.

[frankie big face]

The first pack I ordered finally arrived... and I have to wonder what randomization strategy they're using, since in the one pack I got two Niveouses (Nivei?) and THREE Klownholes. What the heck?

Ha ha! (à la Nelson)

[Spud]

The first pack I ordered finally arrived... and I have to wonder what randomization strategy they're using, since in the one pack I got two Niveouses (Nivei?) and THREE Klownholes. What the heck?

Oh well, at least those are the valuable first-edition misprints.

Calculate the odds. As mentioned in a previous post, duplicates in 18/60 (now 62) are highly likely. A simplified formula is toothpicks squared over haystack, or (17*17)/60 = 4.8 duplicates, although I it seems like in practice about 2-3 is more common.

The more cards that are available, the less likely duplicates become. So send in your data, people! For those who want to help out, I am working on a submission form.

SPUD

[fluffy]

Right, I"m just amazed that they don't dedupe on a per-pack basis. I only ordered one pack; you'd think they'd choose 18 unique cards at random, rather than choosing 18 cards independently.

I understand there'd be duplicates if you order multiple packs. I'm just surprised there's duplicates within a single pack.

[Pigfarmer Jr]

I ordered two packs back when and got a notice Friday that it has shipped. *cheer*

Is there a new challenge to submit under a new moniker for the sole purpose to have a cool ass name on a card?

[Billy's Little Trip]

BLT: If your superpower is in your pants, are you saying that you have magic car keys?

That's just silly. How in the world would I put my little cape and tights on my car keys?

[Spud]

Right, I"m just amazed that they don't dedupe on a per-pack basis. I only ordered one pack; you'd think they'd choose 18 unique cards at random, rather than choosing 18 cards independently.

I understand there'd be duplicates if you order multiple packs. I'm just surprised there's duplicates within a single pack.

You should not be amazed. This was fully disclosed here: http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... 55#p189755

I have put in a suggestion on the site that they create an option for no duplicates in subset packages. It is getting a lot of up votes. I will keep you posted.

[Spud]

http://www.songfight.org/rockening/submit.php is now active.

If you've been meaning to submit, help me out by testing out this form and giving me any feedback you might have.

Thanks, SPUD

[Niveous]

http://www.songfight.org/rockening/submit.php is now active.

If you've been meaning to submit, help me out by testing out this form and giving me any feedback you might have.

Thanks, SPUD

Okay. I gave it a test run. I randomly picked to do a card for Beatnik Turtle.

[Spud]

Okay. I gave it a test run. I randomly picked to do a card for Beatnik Turtle.

All of the information came in fine. Any hiccups on your end, Niveous?

SPUD

[roymond]

I submitted updates to Intentionally Left Bank's card data. Was that a no-no?

[fluffy]

Right, I"m just amazed that they don't dedupe on a per-pack basis. I only ordered one pack; you'd think they'd choose 18 unique cards at random, rather than choosing 18 cards independently.

I understand there'd be duplicates if you order multiple packs. I'm just surprised there's duplicates within a single pack.

You should not be amazed. This was fully disclosed here: http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... 55#p189755

You posted that after I ordered and I wasn't reading every single post about the minutiae of what the manufacturer does. I just post a lot to this forum, that doesn't mean I read everything.

[Spud]

I submitted updates to Intentionally Left Bank's card data. Was that a no-no?

That was fine, roymond. I sent you a thanks by gmail...

[Niveous]

Okay. I gave it a test run. I randomly picked to do a card for Beatnik Turtle.

All of the information came in fine. Any hiccups on your end, Niveous?

SPUD

Nope. Pretty straight forward. I'm going to try again later today and I got Dan Bailey (His Name is Dan) to try it out as well.

[Niveous]

I just submitted a Balls to Monte card. I did notice that the percentile didn't change on the preview but other than that (which it may just be on the preview), everything else seemed copacetic.

[Spud]

Percentile didn't change... explain. Was it wrong?

[Niveous]

Balls to Monte has 20 songs and 2 wins, so it should say 10% but it says 0% instead.

[fluffy]

Nitpick: That's "percentage," not "percentile."

[Spud]

Balls to Monte has 20 songs and 2 wins, so it should say 10% but it says 0% instead.

Thanks, Niv. I see what happened there. I forgot to multiply by 100, and it was rounding everything to 0 or 1 (1=frontalot, 0=everyone else).

[HeuristicsInc]

ooh, submission form, my trimmed photo is at work so i'll try to send one tomorrow.
-bill

[Spud]

Intentionally Left Bank - updated
Beatnik Turtle - added
his name is dan - added
Balls To Monte - added

Current total: 65

[fluffy]

And another pack that arrived today had three Tyler Zahnkes, which is at least two more than I needed!

Man, that guy is everywhere.