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Posted by mike aubry.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chiefs, from Pontiac Central.

Posted on 1/17/2000 6:24 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Answer me this first... posted by Marc DeSchamp on 1/16/2000 9:35 PM MST:



: I'm not going to be at all surprised to see people look like they're going to win 45 to 44 and then get stiffed at the last minute because they were over reaching, scoring for the other team. I think this will create some interesting situations. Will teams try to score for the opposition? Or will they decide that it's better to win by 20 points and get less qualifying points, than to take the risk of an upset?

: Marc

Mark,
The idea of scoring into your opponents goal can easily be justified by a team that is confident that it is going to win! The real trick is understanding the difference in being confident and being greedy! I suppose there will be those that will rationalize whatever decision they make with the obvious answer, that being I'd rather lose with a big score than win with a little one. (This is the result of an alliance misjudging the ability of the other alliance and as a result losses 44 to 45, do to a last second ramp climbing, pole hanging miracle that neither partner was successful defending against) Which by the way, really isn't as bad as it might sound, because the result (44 points) although a loss would probably net you a pretty darn good score. Bottom line though, I would rather not leave it up to chance, miracles, or misfortunate over achievers that say they can do stuff but only to find out later they couldn't. The margin (differential) I'm looking for is in the range of 13-15 points. I'll be happy winning against a 25 point opponents score. Just my opinion - What score would all of you think that you will win against? We can keep track of the average and announce the winner with the closest guess! Seeding rounds only - the games not even close to the same game in the elimination rounds.