The Mobile Application Sample Clauses

The Mobile Application. The data comes from a mobile application in which players predict the outcome of sporting events. The game application is free to play and provides benefits based on a player’s ability to predict the outcomes of five pre-selected sporting events each day. The events involve binary predictions (which team will win, will a player reach a certain point level, etc.), of sporting events including professional and collegiate football, professional and collegiate basketball, hockey, baseball, soccer and Olympic events. If a player correctly predicts the outcomes of at least three of the day’s five events, the player’s “streak” is incremented by one. If a player predicts two or fewer events or does not play, the players’ streak resets to zero. The majority of prediction questions relate to picking the winner of athletic events. The prediction tasks may also involve predictions of individual player performance such as predicting which of two players will score more points in an event. Whenever players reach milestone streaks, they can redeem their streaks for corresponding prizes. For example, a winning streak of four can be redeemed for $1, a streak of eight can be redeemed for $3 and a streak of twelve can be redeemed for $10. Achieving a winning streak of sixty consecutive days (during which a player successfully picks at least three events correctly each day) yields a $1 million reward. Prizes can be redeemed in one of two currencies. One currency is virtual and can be used to obtain discount coupons from third party merchants or physical prizes such as sports themed apparel. The other currency is hard and can be transferred from the app to a designated bank or PayPal account. However, withdrawals are only permitted when a player reaches a predefined threshold. The virtual currency is only available for streaks of one and three. All other milestone streak levels are redeemable for hard cash. Streaks are cleared once redemptions are made and players can begin another streak after redemption. The app tracks how much virtual and real money a player earns and the redemptions a player makes . Table 13 describes the value of each level of reward and corresponding streaks required. The app also calculates the percentage of correct picks made by a player during the past 30 days and provides a corresponding percentile among all active players who played at least once in the last 30 days. Guru status (novice, intermediate, expert, etc.) is a value that reflects the perce...