Rules

The rules for Fantasy Wikipedia are listed below. I tried to make it easy on the participants, because for this first year, we don't really know if it's going to work. If these rules don't make sense to you, look up some basics on Fantasy Football, since this is what it's based on:

Choosing your "team"

Each player has a "team" of 10 Wikipedia articles from 4 categories. Only 8 are active each round; the other 2 are "benched" during the month (but may be substituted later on)

There are three main categories and an "OTHER" category. Each player must have 2 articles in each category.

The "OTHER" category can be filled with articles from one of the three main categories, or from the "OTHER" pool.

These articles are drafted from a pool in December 2014. It will be a "snake" draft (ABCDEFFEDCBAABCDEFFEDCBA, etc)

Scoring:               

Each article will score points based on how many more views it has, year over year, in a time period.      

-4 points: -50% or fewer views than prior period.

-2 points: -50% to -40% fewer pageviews than prior period.

-1 point: -40% to -25% pageviews than prior period.

0 points: -25% to -10% more pageviews than prior period.

1 point: -10% to -5% more pageviews than prior period.

2 points: -5% to +0% more pageviews than prior period.

3 points: +0% to +5% more pageviews than prior period.

4 points: +5% to +15% more pageviews than prior period.

8 points: +15% to +30% more pageviews than prior period.

10 points: +30% to +60% more pageviews than prior period.

15 points: >60% more pageviews than prior period

Source for scoring: http://stats.grok.se/              

Three Rounds

Round 1: January 2015

Round 2: February 2015. 1.5 times as many points are awarded as Round 1.

Round 3: March 2015. Twice as many points are awarded as Round 1.

Payout:

Everyone throws in for $20. First place gets everything but $40. Second place gets $40.

Gentleman's Note:

I'll try to make sure each page has enough volume that it should be hard to cheat.

But still. This is a gentleman's game. Some of you may know how to program a computer to continually refresh a Wikipedia page. Don't do that, and don't click on your pages. And don't ask anyone to do that, or to click on your pages.

Prizes:

Everyone is buying in for $20.

Once per month (December, January, February), you may e-mail the moderator (me) and say you'd like to pick up an undrafted article from the pool. It will sit in your "bench." This costs a $5 Wikipedia donation.