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Old Dec 21, 2012, 8:11 pm
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Originally Posted by USirritated
While not being able to suit 100% of the peoples, it would not be a stretch to come up with a scenario or formula which will make sense and generally apply to 50-60% of the readers/participants in a given program. After all, not everyone is the same, and not everyone stays in the same types of hotels as a preference, or a price range, or locations, etc.
I suspect the current model is probably good for 80-90%+, though the points are again imbalanced with the nights. It should be 750/1.6M or so if they want to be consistent. The algorithm I laid out would be pretty close to 100, I believe. I don't really think there are a lot of 200 night Presidential suite or 5 year RI stayers in the MR population. Most of them/us are 50-100 night business traveler slogging through various levels of properties at corporate rates.
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