The "Cubing Stock" Game Thread!

[gsingh]

I had an interesting idea a few days ago after a Dilly Milly stream I was watching. During the stream, Dylan mentioned that he was going to be “buying Hansen Yu stock”, and that got me thinking about a cool game idea.
I thought it would be fun to give numeric values/points to a number of barriers in 3x3 solving (average times, not single). Say the “sub 5.5” average barrier was given a value of 5 points. Sean Patrick Villinueva currently has a 5.45 3x3 PR average. If I were to purchase 5 of his tokens, that would cost me 25 points. Say, in a couple of months or so, Sean improves his PR average to a 5.17. Let's say the “Sub 5.2 average” barrier was given a value of 8 points. If I had purchased 5 of his tokens earlier for 25 points, they would now be worth 40 points. These tokens can now be “sold” back for a profit. Whoever has the most points will win on the leaderboard, which will be updated weekly.
Point Values (relative to official averages):
Sub 30: 1 point
Sub 20: 2 Points
Sub 15: 4 Points
Sub 12: 6 Points
Sub 10: 10 Points
Sub 9: 14 Points
Sub 8.5: 20 Points
Sub 8: 30 Points
Sub 7.5: 50 Points
Sub 7: 100 Points
Sub 6.5: 175 Points
Sub 6.3: 250 Points
Sub 6: 450 Points
Sub 5.7: 700 Points
Sub 5.5: 1000 Points
Sub 5.3: 1450 Points
Sub 5.1: 1700 Points
Sub 5: 2000 Points
Sub 4.7: 2500 Points
Sub 4.5: 3000 Points
Sub 4: 5000
WR5: 2500 Points
WR4: 2800 Points
WR3: 3300 Points
WR2: 4000 Points
WR: 5000 Points
The cuber will take the highest value that applies to them. For example, Tymon Kolasinski has a PR average of 4.74, which belongs in both the “sub 5” and “WR3” categories. Because the “WR3” category has a higher point value than the “sub 5” category (3300 vs 2000), Tymon will get the points assigned to that category.

To buy tokens, make sure you format like this:

Buy: 5 tokens of Gurshan Singh (2019SING33)
Cost: 250 points (50 points each)

To sell tokens, make sure you format like this:

Sell: 5 tokens of Gurshan Singh (2019SING33)
Value: 250 Points (50 points each)

I will update the leaderboard every two weeks. With that, have fun!

IMPORTANT: EVERYONE HAS A STARTING BUDGET OF 5000 TOKENS

 

[gsingh]

Buy: 51 Tokens of Gurshan Singh (2019SING33)
Cost: 2550 points (50 points each)

Buy: 2 Tokens of Zhaokun Li (2024LIZH03)
Cost: 1400 points (700 Points Each)

Buy: 1 Tokens of Hansen Yu (2023YUHA01)
Cost: 700 points (700 points each)

Buy: 2 Tokens of Zerui Cheng (2023CHEN15)
Cost: 350 points (175 points each)

Points spent: 5000
Points remaining: 0
Total value: 5000

 

[cuberswoop]

Buy: 51 Tokens of Gurshan Singh (2019SING33)
Cost: 2550 points (50 points each)

Dang bro really went and invested in himself

 

[gsingh]

Dang bro really went and invested in himself

I'll get NAR average even if Dilly Milly says otherwise

 

[AJT17]

Buy: 100 tokens of Gurshan Singh (2019SING33)
Cost: 5000 points (50 points each)

I'll get NAR average even if Dilly Milly says otherwise

I believe!

 

[d---]

Hate to be a wet sock, but there is one flaw I can see with this format, that being no-ones assets (the ones they own) ever devalue. Is this intentional or not?
Edit: maybe a transaction fee of 10 points applies to buy or sell, so they make a loss if their investments do not improve?
Edit edit: or the sell value for each range is less than the cost, e.g. I buy Xuyanis WR2 for 4000, expecting him to get wr. However, when he doesn't, I resell it for 3500. Idk, just floating ideas

 

[gsingh]

Hate to be a wet sock, but there is one flaw I can see with this format, that being no-ones assets (the ones they own) ever devalue. Is this intentional or not?
Edit: maybe a transaction fee of 10 points applies to buy or sell, so they make a loss if their investments do not improve?

I did notice that, however I didn't think I would be a big issue, since it it an advantage that everyone shares. However, your transaction fee idea is a good one, and I'll implement that.

 

[tciforce]

Buy: 1 Token of Matty Hiroto Inaba (2016INAB01)
Cost: 1700 points

Buy: 1 Token of Luke Griesser (2015GRIE02)
Cost: 700 points


Points spent: 2400
Points remaining: 2600
Total value: 5000

 

[Cubinginatree]

Honestly this needs to become a website linked with your WCA profile.

 

[d---]

Alright, here comes my inner late stage capitalist libertarian:

Buy: 25 tokens of Gurshan Singh (2019SING33)
Cost: 1250 points (50 points each)

 

[Spencer131]

sports betting for cubing

 

[Cuber2s]

Buy:10 tokens of Sree Dacharla(2021DACH01)
Cost 300
Buy:1 token of Matty Hiroto Inaba(2016INAB01)
Cost:1700

Maybe investing in myself will motivate me to break my pr lol

Edit, i put in the wrong values for my stocks, my bad.

Remaining points:3000

 

[Sombi McJunior]

Buy: 100 tokens of Sam McRea (2023MCRE01)
Cost: 600 points

Buy: 3 tokens of Jeffrey Chen (2023CHEJ07)
Cost: 150 points

Buy: 1 of Bofan Zhang (2021ZHAN01)
Cost:1450

Buy 1 of Luke Greisser (2015GRIE02)
Cost:1400

Buy 1 of Zhaokun Li (2024LIZH03)
Cost:1400

Points spent: 5000
Current balance: 0
Total value: 5000

if i wanted to buy yiheng stock, do i pay the higher value? Would i spend 5000 bc he holds the wr, or would i spend 3000 bc his current avg is sub 4.5?

 

[gsingh]

Honestly this needs to become a website linked with your WCA profile.

I’m afraid I don’t have the coding skills to do that haha, would be super cool though, if anyone wants to do it feel free.

Buy: 100 tokens of Sam McRea (2023MCRE01)
Cost: 600 points

Buy: 3 tokens of Jeffrey Chen (2023CHEJ07)
Cost: 150 points

Buy: 1 of Bofan Zhang (2021ZHAN01)
Cost:1450

Buy 1 of Luke Greisser (2015GRIE02)
Cost:1400

Buy 1 of Zhaokun Li (2024LIZH03)
Cost:1400

Points spent: 5000
Current balance: 0
Total value: 5000

if i wanted to buy yiheng stock, do i pay the higher value? Would i spend 5000 bc he holds the wr, or would i spend 3000 bc his current avg is sub 4.5?

5000 for Yiheng

 

[cubenerd74]

Buy : 22 tokens of Gursan Singh(2019SING33)
Cost : 1100

Buy : 4 tokens of Đỗ Quang Hưng(2019HUNG16)
Cost : 1800

Buy : 3 tokens of Zhaokun Li(2024LIZH03)
Cost : 2100

Yes, I know this is the most random set of people ever, just bear with me.

 

[CubeLite]

Buy: 4 Tokens of Ianis Costin Chele (2021CHEL01)
Cost: 1000 points (250 points each)

Buy: 30 Tokens of Gurshan Singh (2019SING33)
Cost: 1500 points (50 points each)

Buy: 1 Token of Matty Hiroto Inaba
(2016INAB01)
Cost: 1700 points (1700 points each)

Points spent: 4200
Points remaining: 800
Total value: 5000

 

[CornerTwisted]

Buy: 5000 Tokens of Kael Hitchcock (2021HITC01)
Cost: 5000 points (1 point each)

Budget: 0

 

[BVCuber13]

Buy: 10 tokens of Curtis Chai (2022CHAI02)
Cost: 1000 points (100 points each)

Buy: 25 tokens of Brandon Villadolid (2019VILL03)
Cost: 500 points (20 points each)

Buy: 25 tokens of Chandler Pike (2018PIKE01)
Cost: 500 points (20 points each)

Buy: 1 token of Ruihang Xu (2017XURU04)
Cost: 2500 points (2500 points each)

Buy: 50 tokens of Eli Rogers (2022ROGE05)
Cost: 300 points (6 points each)

Buy: 200 tokens of Albert Villadolid (2023VILL28)
Cost: 200 points (1 point each) (I believe in you dad)

Points spent: 5000
Points remaining: 0
Total value: 5000

 

[AhsanDaCuber125]

Buy: 200 tokens of Ahsan Afzal (2023AFZA02)
Cost: 400 points (2 points each)

Buy: 40 tokens of Gurshan Singh (2019SING33)
Cost: 2000 points (50 points each) You will get NAR soon, I believe in you.

Buy: 60 tokens of Anthony Telford (2022TELF01)
Cost: 600 points (10 points each)

Points spent: 3000
Points remaining: 2000
Total value: 5000

 

[precompsubwr]

Buy: 4 tokens of Zhaokun Li (2024LIZH03)
Cost: 2800 points (700 points each)

Buy: 10 tokens of Elias Diaz (2023DIAZ43)
Cost: 500 points (50 points each)

Buy: 10 tokens of Curtis Chai (2022CHAI02)
Cost: 1000 points (100 points each)

Buy: 4 tokens of Siddharth Reddy (2020REDD01)
Cost: 700 points (175 points each)

Points spent: 5000
Points remaining: 0
Total value: 5000