Yes - from what I remember the team that came second lost out due to something like 6 decimal places and the time diff in submission. It was pretty close!
Wow! That's bananas! Imagine being 20 minutes and 6 decimal places away from a million bucks.
Being six decimal places away from winning means the winner was one million times better than you.
They're talking about 0.999999 vs 0.999998, or ~1 part in 1 million different
I might be mis-remembering this part - but I believe napoleon dynamite had its own algorithm in the ensemable because it was a tricky one to predict the rating for.