Population Bracketology - Census Bureau Game!

[dgreen]

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Fun game. There's a metro area bracket and a state bracket (which also includes US territories).

[unusualfire]

Hmm I got the Washington and San Francisco area's wrong. I thought for sure Washington has the official larger MSA.

[dgreen]

Originally Posted by unusualfire

Hmm I got the Washington and San Francisco area's wrong. I thought for sure Washington has the official larger MSA.

Once you finish a game, you can hover your mouse over a match-up and see the "score".

[isaidso]

I got 58/63 but I should have gotten 59/63 as I knew Miami was bigger than Detroit, but pressed the wrong one by accident. Not bad for a Canuck.

[volguus zildrohar]

55/63...I have shamed my ancestors.

[MolsonExport]

56/63. I suck. Goddamn agglomerations

[dgreen]

The cool thing is you can keep re-playing because it generates different matchups each time. I wish it would use some other metros rather than just re-arrange them. It would be more of a challenge and there would be more of a mystery who was going to win.

I think I got 62/63 once. I keep playing trying to get a perfect score, but I keep messing up something.

[brickell]

Here's a theoretical sweet 16 of metros seeded by population. Some pretty interesting match ups. Maybe I'll try to get the whole 64 on there tomorrow.

http://betterbracketmaker.com/#!/9c862b218b415

[Austinlee]

55/63 I have a feeling several of the same ones tricked us.

1. Riverside bigger than metro Baltimore?
2. Metro Houston bigger than metro San Fransisco?? - Hell no. I stand by my wrong answer on this one.
3. Atlanta bigger than Boston? I don't think so.

and Orlando vs San Antonio was a 50/50 chance. Their numbers were almost exactly the same. (I guessed right)

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Austinlee

55/63 I have a feeling several of the same ones tricked us.

1. Riverside bigger than metro Baltimore?
2. Metro Houston bigger than metro San Fransisco?? - Hell no. I stand by my wrong answer on this one.
3. Atlanta bigger than Boston? I don't think so.

and Orlando vs San Antonio was a 50/50 chance. Their numbers were almost exactly the same. (I guessed right)

These ones fucked me up too.

[TarHeelJ]

Originally Posted by Austinlee

55/63 I have a feeling several of the same ones tricked us.

1. Riverside bigger than metro Baltimore?
2. Metro Houston bigger than metro San Fransisco?? - Hell no. I stand by my wrong answer on this one.
3. Atlanta bigger than Boston? I don't think so.

and Orlando vs San Antonio was a 50/50 chance. Their numbers were almost exactly the same. (I guessed right)

Riverside 4.4 million, Baltimore 2.7 million
Houston 6.2 million, San Francisco 4.5 million
Atlanta 5.5 million, Boston 4.6 million

I do think so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_o...tistical_Areas

[ColDayMan]

I got 62/63. Riverside vs. Phoenix messed me up.

[memph]

I got 59 I think (played a few days ago). The match ups I got wrong were with Jacksonville (bigger than I realized) and Raleigh, San Antonio and SLC (smaller than I realized) which were paired up with Providence, Buffalo and a couple other smaller metros (don't remember anymore). I got all the big ones right though. Riverside-San Bernardino is pretty big, you go from fairly close in LA suburbs like Ontario and Chino, to the satellite cities of Riverrside and San Bernardino, to places way out there like Indio, Victorville and Temecula.

[Chase Unperson]

A perfect 63! BUt I was sweating on about 5 of the picks. Houston MSA vs Dallas MSA, Atlanta MSA vs Seattle MSA, Indy MSA vs Nashville MSA, were basically like coinflips for me.

No way am I doing that again. Way too stressful.

[brickell]

Originally Posted by brickell

Here's a theoretical sweet 16 of metros seeded by population. Some pretty interesting match ups. Maybe I'll try to get the whole 64 on there tomorrow.

http://betterbracketmaker.com/#!/9c862b218b415

Here's the 64 city bracket. Maybe this deserves another thread?
http://betterbracketmaker.com/#!/bd161b5d7c415

New Orleans makes a cinderella run when I'm picking my favorites, but it still comes down to NY and LA in the end. My final 4 - NY (1), LA (1), Philadelphia (2), New Orleans (12).

[brickell]

Also I can't seem to do better than 54 or 55 on the quiz. I keep screwing up easy ones.

[Minato Ku]

I did 59 but there are some places that I don't know and I have no idea of the population.
Worcester ? Bridgeport ? Virginia Beach ?
An other hard question was Dallas vs Houston.

[CCs77]

59, Orlando mess me up twice. First against Columbus. But then Vs. Las Vegas, I press with no doubt Las Vegas, and it turned out that it was Orlando!!!!

With the states I got worst, 55. this time I understimate Indiana twice, against New Mexico and again West Virginia. Or maybe it was that overstimate those two. At the end turned out that Indiana was not just bigger, but much bigger.

[Derek]

Cities: 57/63. Missed Boston over Phoenix, Pittsburgh over San Antonio, San Francisco over Baltimore, Tampa over San Jose, Rochester over Honolulu and Providence over Memphis.
States: 58/63. Missed Ohio over Georgia, Oklahoma over Hawaii, Tennessee over Missouri, Puerto Rico over Utah, and North Carolina over Colorado.

[mousquet]

54 then 56 then I gave it up. It depends on how the game combines metro areas. For example, Minato's suggestion of Dallas vs Houston is tricky. I would've answered Houston and likely got it wrong.