{"id":1208,"date":"2015-02-13T03:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T07:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2015-02-13T03:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T07:49:34","slug":"crowdsourcing-match-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/crowdsourcing-match-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing match predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/series.py?series=wc_odi_2015\" title=\"Cricket World Cup 2015\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket World Cup 2015<\/a> is just a day away. We just launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/predictions.py?series=wc_odi_2015\" title=\"World Cup 2015 predictions\" target=\"_blank\">pre-tournament predictions<\/a> of the World Cup matches. However, we believe that <em>you<\/em> can do a better job of predicting Cricket matches and want your help in accomplishing that. Yes, you can indeed help us in getting better predictions.<\/p>\n<p>When you go to the preview page of any World Cup match (for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/game.py?matchID=2015_031\" title=\"New Zealand vs Sri Lanka: World Cup 2015\" target=\"_blank\">the New Zealand vs Sri Lanka match<\/a>), you will see a poll on the right hand side of the page. You can then vote for whichever team you think is going to win the match. You can do this for any league match of the World Cup. If we get sufficient votes for each match, we will display the fan&#8217;s predictions on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/predictions.py?series=wc_odi_2015\" title=\"World Cup 2015 predictions\" target=\"_blank\">prediction page<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe that the wisdom of crowd has more power than our mathematical algorithms &#8211; then this is your chance to prove!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cricket World Cup 2015 is just a day away. We just launched the pre-tournament predictions of the World Cup matches. However, we believe that you can do a better job of predicting Cricket matches and want your help in accomplishing that. Yes, you can indeed help us in getting better predictions. When you go&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/crowdsourcing-match-predictions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crowdsourcing match predictions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}