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Re: [FTC]:Finding weighted rings vs regular rings
Further update:
After review (again assuming NO ANONOMOUS SCORING), it turns out that with proper planning, after the 2nd scoring cycle takes you to 50 points, the next two cycles (3rd, 4th) can each yield 110 points (20 rings and 90 row bonus) per cycle, and the fifth can yield 80 more pts.
Unless you have pair of heavy rings for the corner goal, to have that trip yield more than the 80 points that a 5th trip to the rack can give, requires 205 points already scored, and after three cycles 155 is the most possible.
So, there is no attraction for the corner until the 4th scoring cycle gives 265, and with another 80 still available from a 5th cycle to reach 345 -- you are not going to the corner unless you KNOW you have TWO heavies to hang for the 40% bonus applied to the 265 points reached on the 4th cycle. Without two heavies, a 5th trip to the rack is the best option.
- 1st -- 2nd -- 3rd -- 4th --- 5th
0 1 0__0 1 2__3 1 2__3 1 2__3 15 2
0 1 0__0 1 0__0 1 0__4 1 4__4 1 4
0 0 0__0 0 2__3 0 2__3 0 2__3 5 2
25pts -45pts -155pts 265pts 345pts
So with this in mind, how can you even consider heading for the corner with only one heavy ring, and how can you bother to waste time sorting heavy rings when the 3rd, 4th and 5th scoring cycles can offer a combined 300 points?!!
Only with two partners that are both fast scorers, and with one of them able to detect/sort heavies, does a trip to the corner with heavy/heavies seem likely to make any sense.
-Dick Ledford
Last edited by RRLedford : 15-10-2012 at 16:21.
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