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Countries & Territories of the Americas
North, Central and South America plus the Caribbean. The US and Brazil dominate, so the real game is finding value in the middle.
How a game works
Everyone gets $20 of game money (not real money) to fill 5 spots. Items come up one at a time; the highest bid when the 10-second clock runs out wins.
After the draft, each pick gets its real number for the metric you chose. Totals are added up. For every metric here, the highest total wins.
Values stay hidden until the draft ends, then they're revealed with their source.
Ways to score it
| Metric | Winner | Source | Items |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population Total people living in the country. | Highest total wins | World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL) | 45 |
| GDP Gross domestic product in current US dollars: the size of the economy. | Highest total wins | World Bank, World Development Indicators (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD, current US$) | 43 |
| GDP per capita GDP divided by population, in current US dollars: how rich the average person's economy is. | Highest total wins | World Bank, World Development Indicators (NY.GDP.PCAP.CD, current US$) | 43 |
| Life expectancy Average years a newborn is expected to live. | Highest total wins | World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.DYN.LE00.IN) | 45 |
| Forest area Land under forest, in square kilometres. | Highest total wins | World Bank, World Development Indicators (AG.LND.FRST.K2) | 45 |
| Internet users Share of people who use the internet, in percent. | Highest total wins | World Bank, World Development Indicators (IT.NET.USER.ZS) | 36 |
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An example
Say your draft included these three picks, scored by population. Real figures (latest available) from World Bank:
| Pick | Population (people) |
|---|---|
| Brazil | 212,812,405 |
| Puerto Rico | 3,184,835 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 94,209 |
| Total so far | 216,091,449 |
Illustrative only. In a real game, items are drawn at random and every player bids against the others.
The items
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Maarten
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- US Virgin Islands
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Each value is the most recent figure the source has published for that country. Items without an official figure are left out rather than estimated.
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