Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 05:26:54 09/11/05
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On September 10, 2005 at 20:40:46, Michael Yee wrote: >On September 10, 2005 at 10:07:20, vladan wrote: > >>... >>- SSDF - analogue to NBA regular season, >>- WCCC - analogue to NBA playoff. >>... > >Hi Vladan, > >I like your analogy (partly because I like both computer chess and the NBA :). > >Here's something else to think about: NFL football has only about 16 games per >team for the whole regular season and then Super Bowl is just one game! Talk >about a small sample size... :) > >Michael Actually, the NFL playoffs are fairer than any other sport. (IMHO) The reason is that a football game gives you a better chance to assert your superiority. NBA playoffs also tend to be pretty fair - each game has more luck, but the best-of-7 format compensates. How many NFL or NBA champion teams were not really deserving? In contrast, baseball and hockey have way more upsets despite best-of-7 in the playoffs - it's much easier in those sports to lose to someone weaker. Even the top baseball team won't win two-thirds of its games. BTW - unfortunately this will never work for CC. It only works for humans because we have natural peaks & lows. You just can't have playoff intensity through 80+ games, or treat every race like the Tour de France - so everybody has to agree when it "really counts". Vas
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