{
  "id": 338361,
  "title": "How does the Leaderboard work?",
  "url": "/competitions/amex-default-prediction/discussion/338361",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2022-07-20T07:08:50.406719700Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 4,
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  "content": "<p>I see that there are hundreds of teams with a score of 0.799. In this case, how are the public LB rankings decided? Is it just based on noise?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "1863143",
      "postDate": "07/20/2022 07:08:50",
      "content": "<p>I see that there are hundreds of teams with a score of 0.799. In this case, how are the public LB rankings decided? Is it just based on noise?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I see that there are hundreds of teams with a score of 0.799. In this case, how are the public LB rankings decided? Is it just based on noise?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1863165",
      "postDate": "07/20/2022 07:25:48",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>In this case, how are the public LB rankings decided? Is it just based on noise?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Earliest submission among identical scores gets the best rank, and the ordering is formed based on time of submission. That goes both for public and private LB.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "> In this case, how are the public LB rankings decided? Is it just based on noise?\n\nEarliest submission among identical scores gets the best rank, and the ordering is formed based on time of submission. That goes both for public and private LB.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1863244",
      "postDate": "07/20/2022 08:28:45",
      "content": "<p>That sucks. Why cant they go for more precision? Why would another decimal hurt? Any thread regarding this?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "That sucks. Why cant they go for more precision? Why would another decimal hurt? Any thread regarding this?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1863301",
      "postDate": "07/20/2022 09:29:32",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>Why cant they go for more precision?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I think you misunderstood. They do go for greater precision in their internal scoring. I meant if the scores are identical at all decimal places - for example those submitted from public .csv files - the earliest submission will be ranked best.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "> Why cant they go for more precision?\n\nI think you misunderstood. They do go for greater precision in their internal scoring. I meant if the scores are identical at all decimal places - for example those submitted from public .csv files - the earliest submission will be ranked best.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1863329",
      "postDate": "07/20/2022 09:49:38",
      "content": "<p>Ah ok. Thanks.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Ah ok. Thanks.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1863165,
      "author_name": "tilii7",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/20/2022 07:25:48",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>In this case, how are the public LB rankings decided? Is it just based on noise?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Earliest submission among identical scores gets the best rank, and the ordering is formed based on time of submission. That goes both for public and private LB.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1863244,
          "author_name": "vivekjan14",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/20/2022 08:28:45",
          "content": "<p>That sucks. Why cant they go for more precision? Why would another decimal hurt? Any thread regarding this?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1863301,
          "author_name": "tilii7",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/20/2022 09:29:32",
          "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>Why cant they go for more precision?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I think you misunderstood. They do go for greater precision in their internal scoring. I meant if the scores are identical at all decimal places - for example those submitted from public .csv files - the earliest submission will be ranked best.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1863329,
          "author_name": "vivekjan14",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/20/2022 09:49:38",
          "content": "<p>Ah ok. Thanks.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "1863143": "I see that there are hundreds of teams with a score of 0.799. In this case, how are the public LB rankings decided? Is it just based on noise?",
    "1863165": "> In this case, how are the public LB rankings decided? Is it just based on noise?\n\nEarliest submission among identical scores gets the best rank, and the ordering is formed based on time of submission. That goes both for public and private LB.",
    "1863244": "That sucks. Why cant they go for more precision? Why would another decimal hurt? Any thread regarding this?",
    "1863301": "> Why cant they go for more precision?\n\nI think you misunderstood. They do go for greater precision in their internal scoring. I meant if the scores are identical at all decimal places - for example those submitted from public .csv files - the earliest submission will be ranked best.",
    "1863329": "Ah ok. Thanks."
  },
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}