You`re right in the sense of double counting but then you shouldn`t be referring to it as the magic number then if you don`t want to double count.
The Magic Number
- Thread starter Lose Remerswaal
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Wrong logic.
At any given point we have an opponent. By your logic, at the beginning of the ALDS the magic number would be (I think) 31: the sum of Six wins plus all ‘other advancing teams losses’.
At the end of the regular season, the magic number is Sox wins + contender losses. This year that contender was the Yankees and sometimes we were playing them and sometimes we weren’t.
In the post season the only contender is the current opponent (as you correctly state: what happens to other teams in other series is irrelevant).
But the ‘magic number’ formula is wins+losses, simultaneous or not. In the post season it’s only simultaneous.
It’s stupid, but it’s what a ‘magic number’ is.
Unicorn Number is awesome, actually.
The ‘magic number’ is a dual thing (wins and losses’).
In post season, the only relevant number is singular: uni-
Can we get a second on ‘Unicorn Number’ and PP should start a new thread?
Why not?
This is awesome because there’s not yet a ‘next page’ (reading on iPhone).
Magic number: 10
Unicorn number: 4
