2017 CET annual competition - final position
So here we are at the end of another competition. Thank you to everyone who took part in 2017. All are welcome, including newcomers, to take part in 2018. You have until midnight tomorrow night to send me a PM with your prediction for January 2018.
Only two people finished with a prediction error under 10C. No change in the top two from last month. Shoeshoe held on to be the winner, but only just with lanky finishing in second place. Wobbly-Monk rounds out the top three. Congratulations to Shoeshoe. It is no mean feat to win this competition.
A few other honourable mentions. sussex snow magnet dropped one place to finish fourth but remarkably was never outside the top 5 at any point in the year. That is very impressive.
Darren S had a strong finish to the year, as he often does, and finished in fifth place, a rise of six places. Darren has a remarkable record in this competition. Here are his finishing positions since he first entered the competition in 2010. Only once has he finished outside the top 13.
2010 - 13th, 2011 - 4th, 2012 - 10th, 2013 - 49th, 2014 - 1st, 2015 - 4th, 2016 - 11th, 2017 - 5th
We lost our good friend Dougie this year. He was a big supporter of this competition and never missed a single entry since I started running it in 2009.
Finally moomin75 managed to scrape himself off the bottom of the table this month, thereby avoiding the wooden spoon which instead goes to ozone_auora.
Good luck to everyone in 2018.
Here is the final table
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This table shows everyone's positions for each month of the year
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This table shows the prediction errors for each month. Cells highlighted in blue represent a missed prediction where I have calculated the prediction error as per the rules of the competition. Cells in yellow show an error of less than 0.5C in a month where the CET was within 1C of the 1981-2010 mean. Cells in orange show an error of less than 0.5C in a month where the CET was more than 1C higher or lower than the 1981-2010 mean.
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