"In fact, I entered the data in my sheet for Big Board tracking purposes, meaning I typed "Weiss" over a dozen times, and immediately after, I still wouldn't have been able to tell you that Weiss was a "popular" choice. I have a mental block about Walt Weiss, is what I'm saying. And yet, not only was Weiss a "popular" choice, but he was the mode option (with an average-y average confidence of right around 3 on a 5-point scale), barely beating out David Ross."
"As a result, the current leaders on the Big Board are Catman64 and LoyalFan7, who slammed a full "5" of confidence on the Weiss pick, and were rewarded for their efforts. (By comparison, only one person expressed a "5" in confidence for Ross, and was summarily penalized.) A number of other people wrote something like, "I hope I'm wrong, but Weiss" or "I'll be sad if it happens, but Weiss." No one really said, "Boy, I really hope it's Walt Weiss." So it goes."
A community daily question solicited guesses and confidence ratings about the next manager roughly a month earlier. The prompt generated over 200 comments but only 54 distinct guesses; guesses without confidence received a midpoint value and duplicate guesses used only the first entry. Eighteen different managerial names were proposed. Walt Weiss and David Ross dominated the guesses with 18 and 16 selections respectively. Weiss emerged as the modal choice with an average confidence near 3 out of 5. Two users placed maximum confidence on Weiss and currently lead the tracking board, while many expressed reluctance or disappointment about a Weiss outcome.
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