Meteornotes Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 I've never done this poll, because it seems like a ton of work with all the coasters I've been on. I'll have to look at Ted's helper and see if that will speed up the process. It's easy to do the top 20 and bottom 20, it's ranking the stuff in the middle that takes forever! Just looking over my credit list, man, I've been on a lot of "meh" steel coasters... dt
niiicolaaah Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 I can't use the Coasterfanatics helper this year. The randomization makes it too difficult to find what I am looking for. I am going to have to do it manually. Oh well!
cfc Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 ^^I know what you mean. My top ten was fairly clear, as was the bottom ten. All the stuff in middle tends (past, say, number 25) to run together.
Loefet Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Anyone know if there is a page/file with all ballots on as it have been for the other polls.
Moose Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 No there is not. The webpage states that they will not be released until AFTER the poll is closed.
BeemerBoy Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 As for my ballot. I actually haven't decided if I want to do one or not. It seems like a lot of work, and I always end up annoyed at the end! I was thinking the same thing. And as you said, it's nothing against Mitch, or Ted, or Tom Cruise, or the Easter Bunny, or anyone else who wants to participate in the poll. So in order to save my sanity, I just thought of my 10 favorite steelies. They're simply the ones I can remember having the most fun on (this year, last year, or whenever)...nothing more, nothing less. So in the spirit of sharing with the community: (in no particular order) Space Mountain (WDW) Kumba Montu Wildcat (CP) TTD Volcano Hulk DD Nitro Maverick And if the final official poll results don't look something like this, then you're all doing it wrong.
ginzo Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 As for my ballot. I actually haven't decided if I want to do one or not. It seems like a lot of work, and I always end up annoyed at the end! I was thinking the same thing. And as you said, it's nothing against Mitch, or Ted, or Tom Cruise, or the Easter Bunny, or anyone else who wants to participate in the poll. So in order to save my sanity, I just thought of my 10 favorite steelies. They're simply the ones I can remember having the most fun on (this year, last year, or whenever)...nothing more, nothing less. So in the spirit of sharing with the community: (in no particular order) Space Mountain (WDW) Kumba Montu Wildcat (CP) TTD Volcano Hulk DD Nitro Maverick And if the final official poll results don't look something like this, then you're all doing it wrong. Isn't having 30% of your top 10 occupied by Intamin coasters when you're the B&M fanboy "DOING IT WRONG"?
ginzo Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 ^ lol. Intamin bribed me. It's a sad day for Walter and Claude when their number 1 fan turns to the dark side.
BeemerBoy Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Imagine the kind of song and dance Anton had to put on to make the list.
ginzo Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Imagine the kind of song and dance Anton had to put on to make the list. A brilliant accomplishment considering that he's been dead for several years.
BeemerBoy Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Exactly. And with the revelation of Flight Deck's capabilites, just think of where that will rank next year. Okay, I'm done here. I'll leave the floor open for all future sandbagging conspiracy theories on EGF vs. SROS.
Wes Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 I realized I can't even do a proper top ten, much less try to order (even with grouping) 70+. If there was a poll that was GOOD / BAD, I might be able to do it. What I'm saying is my memory sucks and I have very little opinion of roller coasters.
robbalvey Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 No there is not. The webpage states that they will not be released until AFTER the poll is closed. I'm actually very happy he has decided to do this. I really do think that making the ballots available prior to the poll closing has been a problem in the past couple of years in keeping people "honest." I do agree that making the poll more accessible opens it up to more abuse. It's sad, but it's very true. --Robb
downunder Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 I think it's better that way, I usually go to the completed ballot list to check I didn't make any mistakes but I'll just have to be extra careful before I send it.
ParkTrips Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 Imagine the kind of song and dance Anton had to put on to make the list. but still you snubbed him
CoasterFanatic Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 For those that are overwhelmed by the sheer size of the poll, your imput can still help by simply ranking your 20-30 favorite coasters (and leave the rest completely off your ballot).
ahecht Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 I've never done this poll, because it seems like a ton of work with all the coasters I've been on. I'll have to look at Ted's helper and see if that will speed up the process. It's easy to do the top 20 and bottom 20, it's ranking the stuff in the middle that takes forever! Just looking over my credit list, man, I've been on a lot of "meh" steel coasters... dt That is why I use the modified grouping method. Don't forget that ties are okay, and that it doesn't matter how much one coaster beats another by (so coaster A being 1 and coaster B being 1.1 is the same as Coaster A being 1 and coaster B being 100, as long as there are no rides in between) 1-10: My top ten coasters (I actually have a top 12 this year since there is a 4.5 and a 6.5) 11: Coasters that are so good that I would go to the park just for that ride, but didn't make the top 10. 12: Coasters that I would definitely ride if I was at the park, regardless of the line. 13: Coasters that I would ride if there was a reasonable line. 14: Coasters that I would ride only if there was a very short line. 15: Coasters that I would only ride for the credit, and never re-ride (painful rides). 16-20: My bottom 5 coasters. Rides that you couldn't pay me to ride again. For your situation, you could easily rank 1-20, rank the meh coasters all 30 (with a few 29s and 31s thrown in), and then rank 40-60.
Cyber.Fiber Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 Wow! The poll helper was a huge help! So Much Easier Than The Ballot!
ahecht Posted February 5, 2008 Posted February 5, 2008 Note: I am a mechanical engineer, not a programmer or web designer, so the following post should be taken with a grain of salt Next year, I would like to do drag-drop, where you can pull the coasters over one-by-one and place them in the proper order. Anyone have any comments or think this is a better way to go about it? I was thinking about this, plus Ted saying that he was going to include the ability to enter numerical ranks into future poll tools and that he had to randomize the order of rides to prevent an alphabetical bias. Over the weekend, I came up with an alternate design for a poll tool that would: 1. Allow people to rank as many coasters as they like 2. Allow people to assign coasters easily to groups 3. Eliminate the alphabetical bias without having to randomize the list of coasters Basically, there would be a two column set-up. The left column would have all the rides you selected, and the right would have 7 (or a configurable number) of boxes. The first box is a numbered list of the top rides, and these would get ranked in the order. The next 5 boxes are groups of rides that tie with each other. The last box is a numbered list of worst rides, ranked in order. Users would drag rides from the left column to the appropriate box on the right, which dynamically resizes and renumbers the list as appropriate. You could rank as many or as few rides as you wished, and group the rest. You could even have the number of groups be selectable. I created a prototype page at http://zansstuff.com/cp.shtml. You can drag and drop rides, and the boxes automatically resize to fit as you add to them. I don't have the expertise to actually code in the ability to parse the data and turn it into Mitch's format, but if Ted wanted to he could have an option in his tool to choose either the current ranking method or this one. It should be relatively easy to incorporate into his code, since I used the same javascript libraries to do the drag-and-drop that are used in the current CoasterFanatics tool. Try out this prototype at http://zansstuff.com/cp.shtml
robbalvey Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Today is the *LAST DAY* to submit your ballot. Did you send yours in yet? http://www.ushsho.com/bestrollercoasterpoll.htm Just out of curiosity....who submitted a ballot? --Robb "I did!" Alvey
downunder Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 I did, a couple of midwest newbies made my top ten.
thrillerman1 Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 I voted. SFNE's S:ROS for President! Can I get one of those stickers like they give you at the voting booths for government elections? This is my third year to do it.
SharkTums Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 If someone wants to come over and watch KT for a bit I'll do my poll...if not, looks like I won't have time this year!
cfc Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Today is the *LAST DAY* to submit your ballot. Did you send yours in yet? http://www.ushsho.com/bestrollercoasterpoll.htm Just out of curiosity....who submitted a ballot? --Robb "I did!" Alvey I did. The Phantom's Revenge, oddly enough, turned up as no. 1 for me--I guess because it was my most pleasant surprise of the year. Great American Scream Machine at Great Adventure was at the bottom--call it the biggest non-surprise of the year.
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