Article View: alt.games.gb
Article #472Re: Clarkson Game final standings....
From: Kevin Martin
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:18
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:18
20 lines
1378 bytes
1378 bytes
Petri.Wessman@hut.fi (Petri Wessman) writes: >This sounds suspiciously like one of those sports newscasters who are >always trying to dig up reasons why their favorite/home team just >lost. You know, "we would have won this one for sure if... > a) there had been more sunspots > b) the tarot deck had been favorable > c) half the team hadn't been at home watching Simpsons reruns >Come on, if GEM won then he (it?) won. That's that. Better luck next time. Perhaps you can look at it this way. But what if football were scored according to number of injuries inflicted, or one point for every first down? Wouldn't outcomes (and strategy) be a bit different? Face it. Morale ranking, and even ranking by the current VP formula, suck goose eggs. -- Kevin Martin sigma@ipl.rpi.edu "I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY didn't you BELIEVE me?!"
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<q8q3x1b@rpi.edu>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!sigmaReferences:
<varneyml.727980381@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu> <1993Jan26.010542.10777@nwnexus.WA.COM> <PETRI.WESSMAN.93Jan27200340@lk-hp-11.hut.fi>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: alt.games.gb Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!sigma From: sigma@degas.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin) Subject: Re: Clarkson Game final standings.... Message-ID: <q8q3x1b@rpi.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: degas.ipl.rpi.edu References: <varneyml.727980381@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu> <1993Jan26.010542.10777@nwnexus.WA.COM> <PETRI.WESSMAN.93Jan27200340@lk-hp-11.hut.fi> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:18:22 GMT Lines: 20