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Re: Spoiler Placement

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Originally Posted by boiler View Post
I'm thinking it's a typo; he meant 92. Good eye though.
Yes, sorry, I meant 92.

A few people mentioned that your team only has 2 spoilers. Yes, I agree with this. The point of this number crunching was to simply look at what was possible. If one alliance had free reign and put ALL of their ringers and keepers out there, with well placed spoilers the score can drop very fast.

With two teams competing, it would only seem likely for a team to get half the rack, or maybe 2/3 or 3/4. You can think of an opponents ringer as a "blocker", it spoil your point, but it prevents you from getting any points at all.

Given a mix of red and blue ringers/keepers, I would expect only a few "good rows" of more than 3. These become HUGE targets for a spoiler.
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