[dwood]

Alright so here's a new idea I conjured up for a game. The idea is that you "buy" and "sell" websites based on their respective traffic ranks. The idea is to buy a site as it is starting to get popular and then sell it at the peak of its popularity. For example, it would have been wise to buy YouTube around the end of 2006 as it was starting to creep into the top 100 and then sell it about a year ago as it reached spot #3. The official ranking that will be used for this is Alexa's Global Top 500 (Only top 500 sites may be used)

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/global;0

Everyone that plays the game automatically starts with 1,000 points. The formula for purchasing each site will be as follows:

502-Traffic Rank

Therefore a site that ranks very high, say 2nd overall, would cost 502-2 or 500 points. A low ranking site, say 497th overall, would cost 502-497 or 5 points. As your website moves up or down the ranks, you gain or lose points. Any website that falls below the 500 threshold is automatically ranked 501 for statistical purchases. So if you buy a website at #486 and it fall to #537 the next day, you would only lose 15 points (501-486). You can still keep websites that fall below 500, but once you sell the site it would be taken off of the market (until it reaches the top 500 again). You can buy and sell a website any number of times a day, but rankings are only tabulated daily. Additionally, you may trade any website and/or points for any other website and/or points with another user(s), but all parties involved must give confirmation before the trade goes through. User rankings are a combination of total points currently held and total value of websites held. A website's present value is always 502 - its current ranking. However, when selling and trading, you may buy a website from another player for more than it is worth. For example, you could buy website #475 for 100 points from another player if you see the potential for long-term gain in this website. There is certainly a lot of strategy involved in the game, especially when dealing with seasonal businesses. For example, it would probably be wise to purchase a website like nfl.com in April or May and then sell it when its traffic reaches its annual peak around the Super Bowl in February. To give further clarification, let's run a fictitious 3-player game with Bill, Jim, and Ted.

August 1, 2010
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Bill-1,000 Points
Jim-1,000 Points
Ted-1,000 Points

Bill: I purchase superfuntime.com (#375)
Jim: I purchase awesomeness.com (#286)
Ted: I purchase facetube.net (#13)

August 2, 2010
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superfuntime.com drops to #386
awesomeness.com moves up to #281
facetube.net stays at #13

1. Jim - 1005 Points
2. Ted - 1000 Points
3. Bill-989 Points

Bill: I sell superfuntime.com
Ted: Jim, I will trade you facetube.net (Value 489 points) for awesomeness.com (value 221 points) and 200 points.
Jim: I accept your trade.

TRADE CONFIRMED


August 3, 2010
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awesomeness.com moves up to #251
facetube.net moves to #12

1. Jim - 1054 points
2. Bill - 989 points
3. Ted - 982 points











Anyone interested?

[Ollie The Magic Bum]

I call the porn sites. All of em.

[dwood]

Reread the rules, Ollie. You can't afford them all. Right now you only have:

#66 - Youporn.com - Cost = 456 Points
#96 - Tube8.com - Cost = 426 Points

The next highest ranked one is #149 - youjizz.com, but you can't afford that with a balance of only 118 points. Your next purchase must be ranked #384 or lower. The highest ranked site that meets that criterion is #413 - slutload.com - Cost = 89 Points

You now have 29 points left and can purchase any other site ranked #473 or lower.

[KingOfMyWorld]

I'm still a bit on the confused side, so we get 502 and subtract the sites ranking to get the number of points out of 1000 we use? Is this the Alexa ranking not a country ranking?

[The Great SrH]

Im in Sounds like a good idea although i dont really get the pricing?

So if i can have Last.fm (399) and TMZ (403) would that be possible?

[dwood]

King, its 502 minus the site ranking. #500 costs 2, #499 costs 3, #498 costs 4, etc. And yes all sites are Global, not locally, to simplify things. It's based on 3 month average by default, so you won't see a site jump from #450 to #5 overnight.



SrH
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SrH purchases last.fm (#399) valued at 103, last.fm now valued at 105 (#397)
SrH purchases TMZ.com (#403) valued at 99, TMZ.com now valued at 100 (#402)

Ollie
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Youporn.com drops one spot to #67
Tube8 = no change
Slutload.com drops 3 spots to #416


Rankings:
1. SrH - 1003 points (798 Cash, 205 stocks)
2. Ollie - 996 points (29 Cash, 967 stocks)

[The Great SrH]

Okay i want to get Skype.com (226 rank - 276 cash?), IGN.com (256 rank - 246 cash?) & btjunkie.org (418 rank - 84 cash?)

[dwood]

All three purchases have been confirmed. You now have 192 in Cash and 811 in Stocks, srh

[KingOfMyWorld]

Ok if I read this right, I took the rank on Alexa's Top 500 and came up with this list:


Gamespot 502-249=253
1000-253=747


United States Postal Service 502-299=203
747-203=544


Justin.TV 502-442=60
544-60=484


Wunderground.com(Weather Underground) 502-478=24
484-24=460


YouJizz 502-149=353
460-353=107


FreshWap.NET (Free Full Downloads) 502-500=2
107-2=105

[dwood]

All confirmed, but justin.tv is ranked #442, not #339. Make sure you use the top 500 list that I linked to to get the exact number because rankings are different from Alexa's special traffic rank formula. Because of the misunderstanding, you actually have 105 points remaining in your account in addition to the purchases you have made.

http://www.alexa.com...sites/global;22

[KingOfMyWorld]

Then with my new found extra, I'm thinking I'll take....

Uploading.com 502-399=103
105-103=2

[dwood]

Today's news
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TMZ.com up 2 spots to #400 (SrH +2)
Btjunkie.org up 1 spot to #417 (SrH +1)

Justin.tv down 1 spot to #443 (KOMW -1)
Wunderground.com up 4 spots to #474 (KOMW +4)
Freshswap.net up 2 spots to #498 (KOMW +2)
Uploading.com up 1 spot to #398 (KOMW +1)

Rankings
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1. SrH - 1006 points (192 Cash, 814 stocks)
1. KOMW - 1006 points (2 Cash, 1004 stocks)
3. Ollie - 996 points (29 Cash, 967 stocks)

[The Great SrH]

Wait, dont i have less cash than that with all my stocks? :s

[dwood]

Forgot to update it. Fixed.

[dwood]

Today's news
-------------------
Youporn up 1 spot to #95
Slutload up 3 spots to #413

TMZ down 3 spots to #403
Skype down 2 spots to #228
Btjunkie up 9 spots to #408

Gamespot up 1 spot to #248
Justin up 2 spots to #441
Wunderground up 3 spots to #471
Uploading up 3 spots to #395
Freshswap down 3 spots to 500+

Rankings
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1. KOMW - 1012 points (2 Cash, 1010 stocks)
2. SrH - 1010 points (192 Cash, 818 stocks)
3. Ollie - 1000 points (29 Cash, 971 stocks)

[Webgun]

Ex:

Rank 1-2, spread of 3m views, +1 pt?

Rank 997-998, spread of 5k views, +1 pt?


How is this even remotely fair?