After 48 hours of polling, I am now prepared to present my fun project! A first of its kind historical adventure that I am calling "the battle bracket."
Here before you is a seeded bracket of all fourteen split era leaders, containing both First Ministers and Chiefs of State. The seeding was determined by the satisfaction polling conducted over the past two days, with the highest net satisfaction earning the highest seed, and the lowest receiving the lowest. To keep things fair for the older leaders I only took the percentage of respondents who had been around for the leader, so nobody actually got to use all twenty-five responses. Shoutout to whoever took the poll despite not being around for literally anybody's term.
I'm sure you all want to see those numbers, so here they are:
A few notes: the numbers in parenthesis are the percentages I used to calculate the net satisfaction and the "real total" used, as I'm sure you figured out, is the number of overall responses minus the "wasn't around" responses. Malashaan and McEntire actually ended up with exactly the same results, so I made Malashaan the higher seed because he had the longer term, and I'm inclined to give him the slight edge over McEntire.
And here is the fun part! I will have 24 hour polls every day until we determine a winner and crown the best Split Era Leader! The top two seeds have received a first round bye, meaning they will not compete this time, but the other twelve are on the chopping block. Vote for your favorite in each match-up because the loser will be eliminated and won't move on to the next round. I hope this will be a fun little game we can play to engage with our history, and if this gets a good response I may do this for more things in the future. If we do more historical versions I will probably provide a little more context in the form of an introductory article for all the options so people don't just rely on memories, but since this is all recent history I thought it would be a good place to start.
Take the round one poll here, and until next time this is Calvin Coolidge, ready to battle!
Here before you is a seeded bracket of all fourteen split era leaders, containing both First Ministers and Chiefs of State. The seeding was determined by the satisfaction polling conducted over the past two days, with the highest net satisfaction earning the highest seed, and the lowest receiving the lowest. To keep things fair for the older leaders I only took the percentage of respondents who had been around for the leader, so nobody actually got to use all twenty-five responses. Shoutout to whoever took the poll despite not being around for literally anybody's term.
I'm sure you all want to see those numbers, so here they are:
And here is the fun part! I will have 24 hour polls every day until we determine a winner and crown the best Split Era Leader! The top two seeds have received a first round bye, meaning they will not compete this time, but the other twelve are on the chopping block. Vote for your favorite in each match-up because the loser will be eliminated and won't move on to the next round. I hope this will be a fun little game we can play to engage with our history, and if this gets a good response I may do this for more things in the future. If we do more historical versions I will probably provide a little more context in the form of an introductory article for all the options so people don't just rely on memories, but since this is all recent history I thought it would be a good place to start.
Take the round one poll here, and until next time this is Calvin Coolidge, ready to battle!
