Comments on: Fantasy CEO – Round 7 Annual Report

By: Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:10:57 +0000

My pleasure, Shah.

Careful Steve, you’re sounding like the anti-hero of Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Good luck, Mark.

Aphra.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:41:52 +0000

Aphra – alas after round 7 I had managed to move up to 131st. Not feeling very optimistic about where I’ll be after round 8 probably around about the same as I finished on 481 which is a little disapointing.
See you all in the round 8 feature.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:25:21 +0000

Aphra,

I have started off comments on your Round 8 feature.
Yes I think I probably ended with the highest share price so I am quite happy.
I have published my scores against round 8 for all those above me who may be looking over their shoulders (ha ha).
No chance of the 10k unless 1 to 4 suddenly do a disappearing act.

By: Shah

Shah — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:00:26 +0000

Thanks Aphra – found the reports. Also, great having yer blog here, was good to see others’ comments and good luck with your efforts in haranguing the Times for better processes next time.

Shah

By: Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:38:37 +0000

Blimey – so many comments! Thanks everyone for dropping by and putting in your two cents’ worth. Let’s hope that it demonstrates the usefulness of having some kind of online forum to the Times. I’m certainly planning on dropping an email to the Times with constructive comments and feedback. I’d love them to run it again next year, and I’d hope for it to be even better.

Fettling, Mark, did you guys make it into the top 100? Steve, did you get the shareprice rise you wanted?

David, that’s a very interesting point about the T’s and Cs. I’m actually glad that I’m not in the top 10, because I’d get teribly het up about it if I were.

Dar, I wouldn’t assume that your rise was due to people dropping out. I’ve stayed in much the same band throughout (apart from a couple of weeks when I dropped behind myself). Assume that it’s because of your own abilities and celebrate!

Ron, you are right. We should acknowledge that we stayed the course. 2/3rds of the starters didn’t. I’m glad it’s over, and glad I stayed the course. And it’s been an absolute pleasure to provide a meeting point.

Shah, the round ending at 5:00pm today was the last round. It no longer seems possible to get access via the spreadsheet, but the reporting on the website is there http://times.hitcreative.com/fantasy-ceo/table/average_table.php (log in on the right for your weekly summary and the FastTrack reports in web page format).

Cheers all.

Aphra.

By: Shah

Shah — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:08:48 +0000

Sorry, am studying for accountancy exams and am becoming scatterbrained. Was last week the last week? I was trying to download the excel ceo workbook just now and kept getting error messages? I was trying to print off my 11 sheets of results i.e. report? Came #65 last week and would seriously think it wicked to break into the top 50!

Also what happened to the Frank zursteige guy who was leading all the way?

Shah

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:30:00 +0000

Well, that’s it – all over now!!

I always appear to comment on Dar’s comment but I see it slightly differently.

There’s an old adage in motor-racing ‘To finish first you first have to finish!’

The fact that most of the entries either didn’t start or dropped detracts little from all those who went the distance – congratulations to all who did the eight!

Thanks once again Aphra for the meeting point that you provided.

By: Dar

Dar — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:51:36 +0000

When I was just about to upload my final decisions, decided to check the website and, finally, the results for last week are up there. My only comment goes in question form: What happened to Frank Zurstiege?
I would’ve bet on him to take the first prize.

Other than that, as I said before, the game completely lost momentum for me. According to the latest results I unexpectedly soared up the ranks, but I wonder how much of this is due to people dropping out.

By: David

David — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:26:56 +0000

… and it’s a breach of the Promoter’s Terms and conditions:

10. Scoring Rules: Each week the software will calculate and award points to Entrants using a Balanced Scorecard … Entrants will be able to view their running total verses other Entrants via the Website … .

12. Weekly Game Results: From 1900 each Monday Entrants will be able to download their spreadsheet and use the information to prepare the following Round’s decisions … A table of all total scores to date of all Entrants will be available through the Website. …

By: David

David — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:02:55 +0000

I’ve logged on this morning (Monday) and the results for Round 7 are now there! It seems very unfair that those in the running for the £10K who have not had to submit their decision over the weekend, now have the benefit of knowing their position with certainty, whereas others will have had to work blind.