The Magic Number
- Thread starter Lose Remerswaal
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Everyone on the team should be given a pair of "Mr. #1derful" trunks to wear for tomorrow night's game.
Up until last week my wife had never seen this.
I also hadn’t realized that Guy’s gf was 20 year old Charlize Theron.
Smoke.
Show.
OK. Now they need 1 of 13 remaining outcomes. 7.7% of remaining outcomes.
4 more wins for Cora?
Prob going to be tough since we will likely be playing fewer starters and setting up the post season...but still would be nice for him
Prob going to be tough since we will likely be playing fewer starters and setting up the post season...but still would be nice for him
I think we'll still see a lot of regulars playing because they have so much time between the end of the regular season and their first ALDS game. Maybe we'll see guys get subbed for, etc., but they have to keep playing to keep their swings right and their arms in shape to go out in high pressure innings. I think we'll see at least 3 more wins, and quite possibly 4.
Thinking more about this...isn't it actually:
Twenty two? Magic number is wins by Sox or losses by opponent.
So 11 Sox wins would also mean opponent losses...the magic number is 22.
Twenty two? Magic number is wins by Sox or losses by opponent.
So 11 Sox wins would also mean opponent losses...the magic number is 22.
Technically correct. But I think the thread has moved towards "magic number of victories needed to emerge as the best and winnest damned team in all of baseball for 2018!"Thinking more about this...isn't it actually:
Twenty two? Magic number is wins by Sox or losses by opponent.
So 11 Sox wins would also mean opponent losses...the magic number is 22.
So with that mind... 십장생...
Not in the playoffs.Thinking more about this...isn't it actually:
Twenty two? Magic number is wins by Sox or losses by opponent.
So 11 Sox wins would also mean opponent losses...the magic number is 22.
1. It is impossible to get 11 loses in a single post season - 9 is the max for any team.
2. The only losses that matter for any given team are the ones that happen in the series that they are involved in. And since that corresponds 1 to 1 with wins, it is not meaningful to double count. In other words, for the Sox in the ALDS, the only losses that help the Sox are Yankee losses. Houston sweeping Cleveland does nothing to advance Boston towards the World Series.
This is like the Bruins countdown in 2011 on the Bruins playoff thread. Hope it ends the same way.
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Basically, it doesn't matter how many games Los Angeles or Milwaukee win or lose, the "magic number" stays the same - the only thing that matters is Red Sox wins. Right now there would be a corresponding Houston loss, and (hypothetically, hopefully) in the World Series a corresponding Los Angeles or Milwaukee loss (and during the World Series, one could theoretically count 8->6->4->2->0), but for right now "10" is flat-out wrong, as discussed just a few posts up from yours.
Well, uh, yes? I’m not sure how this is difficult to be honest.
A magic number needs someone on the other end of you want to combine wins and losses. As the opponents change by round, you can’t really do that in the playoffs. The only number that matters is 11 wins. You can call it the Unicorn number if you want, but it’s not the same thing.