So what that last column does is it combines all the ballots in our contest and finds the most popular pick in every category and assumes that it is going to win. It then looks at your ballot and tells you what your score would be if that were true.
Go to that results page again and scroll all the way to the bottom. The last row in the "AV Consensus". If you move your mouse over each category in that row you can see what the most popular pick was. If all the picks in that row end up being right, your final score on Oscar night would be 20 picks right out of the 21 categories that count in our contest, and 1 right out of 2 on the tie-breaker categories. (in other words, you'd be very likely to win or come close to winning!)
That said, the top choice in each category in our contest probably will not be correct. So you can't count on it! But it is a fun talking point until we get the actual results!
(Check out the record book starting in 2012. The "consenus" score shows you how well the top picks in our contest did against the actual results. For example, in 2012 the top picks in the contest were 77.3% correct, but the actual winner of the contest got 81.8% of the picks right.)
