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Old 12-14-2017, 05:40 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by Jay Random View Post
Maybe, but by taking it literally, those posters showed the weakness of your case: Nothing is particularly good at predicting the result of any particular game or even a short series. Even the worst teams win about 30 percent of the time. Even the best teams lose about 30 percent of the time. It's no good getting in a big snit about how team X should have beaten team Y on night Z, and therefore trade the culprit/fire the coach/blow the team up and start over.

(I'm not saying you're in a big snit. I'm saying I've seen many such snits in PGTs after losses, especially this year. If it were all said in conversation, I could chalk it up to blowing off steam, but when people put that stuff in writing they can have a tendency to stick to their most extreme opinions and get defensive rather than cool off and change their minds. Verba volant, scripta manent.)
Then why discuss it? Looks like a meaningless thread. THANKS BINGO !!!

Its a stats vs eye test discussion. Take a side or not, but don't tell us that we are just wasting our time because no one can predict anything. Its what makes us fans.
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