FAQs
- Why electronic raffle system?
Members who have been with HPPCOOP for a while know that our raffle system is electronic. This is because we just have so many raffle tickets that doing the raffle manually will be too difficult and expensive. - Why so many raffle tickets?
This is because each member gets 1 raffle ticket for every year of HPPCOOP membership. A fraction of a year is considered 1 year. So for those members who have been with us for the last 11 years, they will have 11 tickets each.This is to make it fair to members who have been with the coop for a number of years. Thus, when we run our electronic raffle system, you notice the number after the name which corresponds to the "nth" raffle ticket of a member, e.g. JUAN DELA CRUZ 1, JUAN DELA CRUZ 2, JUAN DEL CRUZ 3, etc. - What is MBF?
MBF or Members Benefit Fund is the P50/month contribution of members to subsidize our various annual raffles (e.g. General Assembly Raffle, Anniversary Raffle, Christmas Raffle, etc.). To streamline the process, the P600.00 MBF is being deducted from members' accounts once a year (normally before the General Assembly Meeting). MBF may also be used for any members' benefit the board may deem appropriate in the future. But for now, it's primarily for raffle. - If I've been with the coop for just 1 month, do I get a raffle ticket?
Yes. If you've been a member of the coop for 1 month before a raffle draw, that is considered 1 year and you get 1 raffle ticket if you have contributed the P600.00 MBF. - What does DRAWN/INVALID TICKET mean?
This can be any of the folowing reasons:- The ticket has been drawn already. Even if our system is electronic, each ticket can only be drawn once.
- Member has resigned after the electronic raffle system has been prepared.
- Where do I find my assigned raffle ticket numbers?
Login to the website hpp.coop. Click your profile picture and select Profile. Scroll down to MBF Count and MBF Tickets.
How does the HPPCOOP Electronic Raffle System work?
The HPPCOOP Electronic Raffle System (ERS) basically utilizes random number generation. There are several randomizations happening in the ERS. Below is the process flow of the ERS and their explanations.
Fig. 1
PREPARATION
TICKET COUNT
Members are given a certain number of tickets based on their tenure.
RANDOMIZE 1
The computer then assigns a random number for each ticket on the list. If you have 11 tickets, you're assiged 11 random numbers. If you only have 1 MBF, you're assigned just 1 random number.
SORT 1
The list is then sorted based on the acquired random number.
TICKET NUMBERS
Afterwhich, a unique ticket number, starting from 00001, will be assigned sequentially to each ticket on the SORT 1 list. At this point, the list of members and tickets are already randomized even before the raffle even begins. Somebody with multiple tickets will notice that their ticket numbers are not assigned in blocks but randomized.
TICKET NUMBERS and their corresponding Member Names are then fed into the HPPCOOP Electronic Raffle System.
RAFFLE PROPER
SELECT
Choose an item to raffle from the list of prizes.
SPIN
The HPPCOOP ERS continuously picks random ticket numbers.
DRAW
Once DRAW button is clicked, the system will still continue to randomize for a while before stopping and selecting the winner. The rationale is so that whoever is clicking the DRAW button cannot directly select the winner that is currently displayed. Having the randomization continue a few times makes the selection even more unpretictable.
CLAIM
Once the CLAIM button is clicked, the system then records the winner and invalidates the winning ticket number.
Then the process repeats from SELECT until all the raffle prizes have been drawn.
9th GA Raffle Example
To illustrate the randomness of the HPPCOOP Electronic Raffle System, Fig. 2 below is a "heatmap" of the winning numbers during the 9th Annual General Assembly Raffle. All the ticket numbers are listed sequentially. All the red blocks are the winning tickets. As you can see, the winning tickets are spread out. The winner is selected based on multiple factors, i.e. computer random numbers, who initiates the DRAW button, the millisecond difference in the clicking of the DRAW button, etc.
Fig. 2
If you have further question about our Electronic Raffle System, please Submit a Ticket and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
