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U21 Consolation Tournament -- Season 37

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284770.42 in reply to 284770.40
Date: 2/16/2017 4:36:42 AM
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The title of this topic "U21 Consolation Tournament -- Season 37" is misleading. I haven't read anything about the tournament. I heaven't read any basketball reviews of matches. I haven't read any previews of the upcoming rounds. I also haven't read any congratulations to the Dutch U21 team.

Basically, nothing about the U21 Consolation Tournament.

What I did read was math and statistics problems. I suggest to those not able to handle unsolvable math problems, to go back to reading math books, there you will always find the solution to a problem.

Thank you for congratulating our U21 coach Jeründerbar for this historic upset. One of the greatest upsets in the history of the U21 Consolation tournament to stay on topic. We appreciate it! ;)

From: Oranjeman

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284770.44 in reply to 284770.43
Date: 2/16/2017 5:29:50 AM
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Hahaha, absolutely, or we might hire some... you know, Russian hackers or something

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284770.48 in reply to 284770.46
Date: 2/16/2017 6:50:54 AM
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Ah, you're one of those people... sportmanship doesn't matter, only being right.

Play this game for math and statistics, fine. I won't.

So here is my explanation in basketball terms. One team showed more effort and the coach of the weaker team did a better job. The end!

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284770.51 in reply to 284770.49
Date: 2/16/2017 7:33:19 AM
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I totally get your frustration and I think you are right to be upset. But on the other hand, it's all about probability and randomness generation within the game that makes this highly unlikely event happen once in a while.

I think of the game engine as a set of algorithms that are full of random stuff generation with forced percentages on it. Let's say like playing Risk, where you can invade a country and throw 3 dices against 1 for as many times in a row as your army can. And yes, it can happen that the defending player who left an unprotected territory gets lucky with the dice every time and the smart attacker that did everything to make sure he wins the match loses his army.

We tend to complain about things that go unplanned without taking a good look at all the times things went well. Let's check how many of those games were won by the worst side and we'll see if there's room to complain or if we were just unlucky.

The doctor may tell you that you have a 99% of chances of coming out alive of surgery and you could easily be the guy out of 100 that dies, and the doctor didn't necessarily lie.

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