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Okay, I think I'm set to start. The one thing I don't yet have is a good mechanism for determining when a candidate will double down on a state. I could just decide that for them as I go along, but those of you who have followed my uni's know that randomness is king. I don't like to intrude on my uni any more than is necessary.
Unless someone has a better suggestion, I think I'll go to the randomizer on this one. First state, Iowa, I'll give every candidate a 50% chance of training for that one. After all, it's first shot out of the box, and in real life, many candidates stake their entire success on Iowa. I'm thinking 100% the candidate doubles down in his home state. Perhaps that isn't necessarily prudent, since if you are already the favorite, why spend the extra cash? Not sure. No brainer - if a guy is down around $500,000, he doubles down on the next state offering a reasonable amount of delegates. And doubling down on big states like California and New York seems to make sense as well. I honestly don't know how well the campaign finance system will work - we're testing it as we go. I might find right in the middle that it flopped, in which case we'll need to adapt - a circumstance that would no doubt rankle any candidate who shot craps before the alteration. We'll see.
In a little while, I'll introduce the candidates. Each will have had 10 bouts, so as to give them a seeding going in. I'll give you the seeds so you know the early favorites, and those likely to head home.
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