Patent Document ID: 20060218179
Application ID: 11267179
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for determining the proficiency of a first predictor, wherein the first predictor is a member of a contest having a plurality of additional predictors, comprising: (a) receiving a plurality of predictions from the first predictor; (b) for each prediction, calculating a prediction score, wherein the prediction score is a measure of the prediction against an objective baseline for the prediction; and (c) calculating a proficiency score for the first predictor based on the set of prediction scores calculated in step (b), wherein step (c) includes: (i) calculating a total score component for the first predictor, wherein the total score is the summation of the plurality of prediction scores generated in step (b), (ii) calculating an accuracy component for the first predictor, wherein the accuracy component is based at least in part on the number of predictions the first predictor determined correctly and the total number of predictions made by the first predictor, and (iii) generating the proficiency score for the user, wherein the proficiency score is the sum of the total score component and the accuracy component.