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Baby Sera Adoption Pool

Craig and Cyndi are adopting a baby girl. Baby Sera is expected to join the Repanshek family within the next 6-12 months (maybe less). Due to the cost of the adoption (birth mother's expenses, agency fees, legal fees, travel costs, nursery items, and maternity leave), Craig and Cyndi have started this fun baby pool to raise money. It costs $5 to guess. 75% of the pool goes to Baby Sera and the winner gets 25%.

How to participate in the adoption pool:
Make your guesses about Sera's birth date, weight, and length on the Baby Sera bebepool.com website.
Guess soon. The pool will close once we are matched.
Feel free to leave a message for us or Sera.
After you have guessed, you have to pay for your guess. If you see us regularly, you can give Craig or Cyndi $5 personally. If not, use Paypal. If you send money from your checking account, there are no fees. You can send payments to Cyndi's account at cgrepanshek@gmail.com. Once paid, Cyndi will mark you as paid online.
Once Craig and Cyndi bring Baby Sera home, the closest person will win the pot.

 

 
 
 
Entered Sort by EnteredPerson Sort by PersonEmail Sort by EmailBirth Date Sort by Birth DateLength Sort by LengthWeight Sort by WeightComments/ Congratulations Sort by Comments/ Congratulations
2012-01-14 14:37:23Vicky HamptonVickyh57@?
??.com		2012-06-0619.0007.875
7 lbs 14oz		Cant wait to meet her! Best wishes to you all!
2012-02-13 12:07:00Kate Braumank_brauman@
???.com		2012-08-0520.0007.688
7 lbs 11oz		When Sera arrives you will know that the wait has been well worth it!




Your Name
Email (Optional)
(Will be partially masked for privacy / anti-spam reasons;
however, the pool administrator will have access
to your full email address. If you include your email, you can receive
messages such as a birth announcement or other information related to this pool.)
Birth Date
Use format yyyy-mm-dd (e.g. 2005-12-31)
  NOTE: It's not uncommon to mis-type the year part of
the date - please double check the year you enter.
 
Length inches
(e.g. 20, 21.5, 22.33)
 
Weight lbs
(e.g. 6, 7.5, 8.33)
lbs oz
 
Comments/Congratulations

After the "Preview" you must click "Save" to save your entry to the pool.

Statistics:

Guesses:    2
 
 
Average Length:    19.5 in
 
Average Weight:        7.78 lbs
 
   
 
 

Scoring Explanation:

A pool entry/guess entails up to 9 components. The pool administrator chooses which components to include (in dark text below). An exact match results in a zero (0)—a perfect score—for that component. The overall score is the total points of all the active components.

Points are determined as follows:

Birth Date
1 point for each day of the week before or after actual (for instance, off by two weeks means 14 points).

Birth Time
A value ranging roughly between 0 – 3 points for time of day (approximately 0.12 points per hour difference. For instance, plus or minus 4 hours is approximately a half point; birth date is not part of the calculation, so clock time is relative and not calculated across the midnight boundary).

Gender
1 point if guess is wrong.

Length
1 point for every inch (or 0.3937 points per cm) greater or less than actual (technically, if the actual is 20 inches and the guess is of 19.999, then 1/1000 of a point is added, for example).

Weight
1 point for every lb (or 2.2 points per kg) greater or less than actual (technically, if the actual is 7 lbs and the guess is of 7.001, then 1/1000 of a point is added, for example).

Hair
1 point if guess is wrong.

Eyes
1 point if guess is wrong.

First Name & Middle Name
On average, one will gain 2 to 4 points for an incorrect guess.

The characters of a name are analyzed for similarity. Character parity, order, and count determine how close the guess is to the actual; phonetic distance is also taken into account. For example, if the actual name is "Bart", then:

"Barry" scores better than "Bartholomew" (count: Bart [4], Barry [5], Bartholomew [11]).
"Brad" scores better than "Jill" (parity: Brad contains the 'a' & 'r', but Jill contains neither).
"Marli" scores better than "Keira" (order: both contain the 'a' & 'r' of Bart, but in Keira it occurs in the wrong order).

If the actual name is "Stu", then:
"Stew" scores better than "Stan" (phonetic: pronunciation usage of 'u' more closely related to 'ew' than 'an').

Case matters ('A' is not equal to 'a')!

There's also significant penalty points for a guess that looks like a non-guess: "?" or "???", for instance.

Note: When the administrator of the baby pool enters the Actual Results, some, but not all components may be filled in. Actual Results components of numeric type which are left blank will default to zero (0). Blank multiple choice components will display blank and 1 point is applied equally to all participants for that component. If the Actual Results are removed and re-entered (for the sake of corrections/additions), scores will be recalculated. If a pool component is deselected by the pool administrator, any data entered while it was active will be ignored by the total score calculation.