So this is what I'm thinking. Correct predictions that are invalidated by the Judges' Save are worth half a point each. The following week, assuming that they don't bother saying which of the two people eliminated got more votes, a prediction of either one for either of the two weeks in question is worth three-quarters of a point.
That is... going with alphabetical order, supposing that Adam comes in 9th and the judges save him, you'd get .5 points for every week you put him in 9th place. If, the following week, Allison and Anoop were eliminated, you'd get .75 points for every week you had either Allison or Anoop in either 8th or 9th place.
It's not a perfect solution, but it does keep the same number of points in the system, and I don't have any better ideas.
Works?
Posted by Shmuel at March 26, 2009 4:00 PM