The second baby pool
I’m a lot earlier in setting this up than last time, which is mostly due to not wanting to bother with setting up a baby pool around Christmas. We are of course hoping that Little One stays inside a good bit longer, as his due date is January 16 or 17, I can’t remember for sure. You can participate as before by commenting with your prediction of Little One’s birth date, time, size, weight, and gender (unknown to us as well). Whoever gets closest to the truth will be crowned the grand winner and will receive an as of yet undecided prize, which is all the more tantalizing as the grand winner last time has yet to receive his…
Rules for determining the grand winner:
1. If you get the gender right, you receive 0 points; if you get it wrong, or don’t state it, -5 points.
2. For every day you are off, -1 point. Not stating day or time scores -5 points.
3. For every centimeter you are off, -1 point. Not stating anything scores -5 points.
4. For every 200 grams you are off, -1 point. Not stating anything scores -5 points.
5. The person with the highest total wins.
6. Entering after Little One’s arrival voids the entry.
Go to digitaldutch for a useful unit conversion link, or have a look at the Google spreadsheet I made for converting weights!
November 14th, 2011 at 23:51
Gender: Boy, ’cause that’s what I always pick.
Date/Time: January 14th, 5:42 pm
Length: 51 cm
Weight: 3515 g
S
November 15th, 2011 at 07:15
I forgot to put in my own pick, and now it’ll look an awful lot like copying S…
Gender: Girl
Date/Time: January 14th, 14:14
Length: 50 cm
Weight: 3421 g
November 16th, 2011 at 20:27
Boy (because this side of the family seems to have the same sex for 1st and 2nd children)
January 13th, 1:13 PM
52 cm
3544 gm
N
November 16th, 2011 at 21:54
Gender: Girl
Date/Time: January 20th, 11:30am
Length: 49cm
Weight: 3250
November 20th, 2011 at 14:34
Girl (I almost wrote boy but I’m going with the mother’s instinct. (: )
January 27, 2:03pm
53cm
4111g
November 20th, 2011 at 14:34
Technical question - you have a score for days off, but not hours or minutes. Are you going to count them as fractions of days and thus deduct fractions of points?
November 20th, 2011 at 17:16
Yep, time will be scored as fractional days and result in fractional points, just like last time. I thought I’d transferred all the post-hoc rule details into the rules, but that one slipped past. Thanks for pointing it out!
November 21st, 2011 at 12:53
Gender: Girl
Date: January 7
Time: 9:45 am
length: 53 cm
weight: 3691 g
December 27th, 2011 at 00:30
It’s about time I got on the ball here! First, my official prediction:
Gender: Girl (Because I ALWAYS choose “girl.” I’ve been right 1/3 of the time.)
Date/Time: January 9th, 3:30pm
Length: 50cm
Weight: 3300
Unofficially, however, I say “boy,” because I have a name. I was praying for Joseph and to my surprise spoke instead this other name. I’m not saying the name to avoid any possible influence, but it’s a boy’s name, hence my unofficial hedge.
December 27th, 2011 at 21:06
Gender: Girl (Because of the nice mix 2 + 2 )
Date/Time: January 3rd, 3:00 am
Length: 49cm
Weight: 2990g
December 29th, 2011 at 19:59
I made my guess independent of looking at others. It looks like I shut out Sarah on some parameters and she shuts me out too (this being a reciprocal situation). Boy, 3490 grams, 50 cm, January 14, 5:13PM
December 29th, 2011 at 20:59
[…] You can still vote on the baby pool here! […]
December 30th, 2011 at 04:37
Boy
Jan 15, 18:43
50.5 cm
3575 grams
D
January 2nd, 2012 at 23:33
Boy
Jan 11, 04:56
53.3 cm
3752g
Pikku
January 3rd, 2012 at 19:55
Girl
Jan 15, 23:15
51 cm
3650g
ana banana
January 7th, 2012 at 17:22
Rose Takata said boy!!!3633g 52cm jan12,21:58
January 10th, 2012 at 16:40
Boy
Jan 18, 9:18pm
54 cm
4062g
B
January 10th, 2012 at 20:21
And with that we’ll close the pool, out of fairness to those with earlier dates.