At 16:24 07 June 2004, John Jones wrote:
At 15:48 07 June 2004, Andy Blackburn wrote:

WRONG, wrong, wrong....there is no logic AT ALL behind
devalued days.


I guess a monkey typed out that rule when no one was
looking.

;-)

Just because you don't agree with the logic doesn't
mean there isn't any logic at all.

By the way, different sports do treat individual competitions
differently. Many team sports (baseball, football,
basketball, hockey) generally count one game equal
to one point - the most games won decides the outcome
of a series. Other sports count cumulative score differential
(golf) and some (F1 racing)attribute non-equal points
to finish order (1st gets 10 pts, second gets 8 pts,
etc) - irrespective of how much you won by. So, winning
two games in the hockey playoffs by 10-0 scores is
not the same as winning the first two rounds of a golf
tournament by 10 strokes is not the same as winning
two F1 races by 10 laps - only in the second case does
cumulative score differential matter and only in the
second and third can you never win an individual round/race
and still win the tournament/series (though even here
there is a huge difference in how you would have to
do it). There are also round-robin and seeding based
tournaments, not to mention the college football BCS
system (yikes!).

I forget how they score bowling...

There are things about the day devaluation rules that
are strange and seemingly arbitrary, to be sure, but
lets not pretend that they aren't addressing a real
issue with how contests transpire -- and please let's
not pretend that other sports don't have similar peculiarities
that come out of they way they are played.

Take baseball's infield fly rule. Now THAT should generate
some heat!

9B