I'm dissapointed, although not altogether surprised, to find out that my efforts at providing a detached, logical argument were met with fallacies and insults. > Here's an even better sports analogy: giving the > championship > outright to the team with the better overall > preliminary record would > be like giving the jug of milk at Indy to the driver > that wins the > pole. On PAPER, the pole car is the fastest, so why > even run the > race? No, that would be comparable to the tournament director deciding which team is best based on previous events and awarding them the championship without playing the games. I don't see how you get "On PAPER" out of playing the round robin games. My premise here is, in fact, in opposition to all sorts of subjective ideas about what paper stats are more important: I am saying that only won-loss record--not order of games, not statistics, not the way things are done in NCAA women's soccer--should determine the ranking of teams. I don't see how anything I said before can be read as an opposition to "upsets"--if Michigan and Hawaii State each beat the rest of the field in the round robin, and Hawaii State beats Michigan in their matchup, then Hawaii State wins the tournament in an "upset" and I have no problem. > This is exactly why I am cool with Notre Dame > winning its region > despite having a worse record than DePauw. Dick > Trickle could start > 43rd at Daytona, but if he passes everyone, he wins. > Right? Again...yes, but if he finishes 43rd, he doesn't then get to race one lap against the 1st place finisher for the championship. > I'm not sure what Matt's motivation was in making > such full-hearted > gripes at CBI (maybe sour grapes?) How mature. For the record, I've won four of the six CBI events I've played in, as difficult as it was to suppress my gag reflex at the questions. Once again, here's the essence of my argument: Play the games. Decide the winner and the ranking of the rest of the field on the results of those games, and not anything else. Anyone who thinks that the above premise has something to do with awarding Michigan the championship in every tournament, or thinks that saying "sour grapes" to someone constitutes a valid argument, is just plain wrong. --M.W. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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