Thread: What do you think of team 131 CHAOS? Pros/Cons
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Double-Double-Double-and-a-half or Double-Double-Double
Posted by Joe Johnson at 03/06/2001 1:27 PM EST


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Posted by Mike Sklar on 03/06/2001 12:26 PM EST:



My view is that the name of the game is to get the double-double-double-and-a-half (10X) if you can and go for the double-double-double (8X) if you can't.

As a practical matter, you need to score 25% more points in the 30 seconds between the double-double-double-and-a-half and the double-double-double in order to make it worth playing on for these extra 30 seconds.

If your base score is 40 or above, getting %25 more in 30 seconds is somewhat of a difficulty, so it often does not make sense to play on, though it can make sense if 20 base points are available without risking losing balancing both goals.

Finally, in my opinion, in order to beat the very worthy 520 points that was put up at the UTC Regional, teams will have to either score close to 70 base points with a double-double-double (which I judge to be just inside the realm of possible) or teams will have to go to a double-double-double-and-a-half strategy just as the Gael Force, et. al. did (which I judge to be the more likely scenario).

To break the 600 point barrier, I believe that only the double-double-double-and-a-half will do.

As to 4X vs. 5X, for me, this is all just noise on the signal.

Crack the double-double-double or the double-double-double-and-a-half nut and you have solved the whole problem.

Fail to crack it, and you will be watching others who have play on.

This is the question I think every team should be asking themselves:
How does my team help an alliance get the double-double-double or the double-double-double-and-a-half?

Your answers may scare you.

Just my opinion and I have been wrong before.

Joe J.


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