8 CapDebrief and FoundationDebrief - 8.6 Results To Date and 8.7 Scores To Date

8.7.1Weights

Weights are taken from the information entered on the website's Success Measurement page in the Homework section (either by instructors or participants, see Section 3.9.3 Entering Success Measures). The criteria determined by instructors also have an impact on results. Capsim® suggests:

• Cumulative for Profits
• Ending for Stock Price and Market Capitalization
• Avg for Market Share , ROS, Asset Turnover , ROA, ROE

Selecting each company name displays a ranking of all companies based on the selected company's performance measurements.

8.7.2 Scores

Each company gets 1 base point for itself and 1 for each inactive team: If there are no inactive teams, then the base score will be 1, if there is one inactive team, then the base score will be 2, if there are two inactive companies, then the base score will be 3, etc. Companies get an additional point for each active (participant or computer) company they beat. These points are then multiplied by the success measure weights.

For example, suppose there are six teams. Andrews got the highest ROE and Baldwin the lowest. Andrews gets 1 point for themselves and 5 points for beating the other teams. Total raw score = 6 points. Baldwin gets 1 point for coming in last. However, suppose Andrews weights ROE at 0% and Baldwin at 20%. Andrews final score would be 6 X 0 = 0. Baldwin would get 1 X 0.2 = 0.2 points. A perfect score is always 6.0 overall, which is equivalent to saying, "On every performance measure we picked, we came in first."

8.7.3 Overall

This section displays an overall ranking based on how well each company lived up to their own performance measurements, juxtaposed with how well the other teams lived up to theirs. For example, let's say Baldwin chose 50% Asset Turnover and 50% Market Share as their measurements. It is possible that they could be number one in Profits, Stock Price , ROE, ROA and ROS, yet still lose.