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I want to believe that's insightful but I can't seem to interpret it any way other than a math fail. I could potentially have 10 practices, miss 2. Opponent has
by Psyonic 16y ago
I want to believe that's insightful but I can't seem to interpret it any way other than a math fail. I could potentially have 10 practices, miss 2. Opponent has 10, misses 0. Opponent 10 - Me 8 = 2 missed practices...
If the competition did miss the practices, it'd be a wash, so we'd all have essentially missed 0.
What am I missing here?
- chrisa 16y agoI think this is the rationale: In sports (or anything that requires practice), going some time without practicing actually makes you lose some of the ability you once had. So in this case, it would take two practices just to get back what was lost during the break, at which point he would be 4 practices behind.
- Psyonic 16y agoSo the issue is regression. I can believe that, but the original story didn't get that across clearly. Though I imagine the concept was familiar to the players, so it was probably clear at the time.
- jules 16y agoIt seems unlikely that that was the coach's interpretation. Why would you need exactly 2 practicing sessions to recover from 2 missed ones?
- ceejayoz 16y agoI took it as just "not only have you not improved, but your opponent improved while you weren't improving too".
- Psyonic 16y agoRight, but that still only accounts for +2. If he hadn't improved, it'd be a wash. Only regression on your part gives a +4.
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- hasenj 16y agoYou're taking it too literally. Each time you miss your training, you lose twice. One for being behind your schedule, and another for being behind your opponent. In other words, not only are you behind on your schedule, but your opponent is ahead of you. This changes your perspective.
- RickHull 16y ago> Each time you miss your training, you lose twice. One for being behind your schedule, and another for being behind your opponent. This is a very interesting and motivating point. But I do not think it goes into the causal matrix. It may be behind your schedule, behind your opponent, and behind the refrigerator. But you don't simply add everything that your training is behind. Your training schedule prepares you for your opponent. Being behind your schedule is already equivalent to being behind your opponent. That said, changing one's perspective can be very beneficial.
- yafujifide 16y ago> Each time you miss your training, you lose twice. One for being behind your schedule, and another for being behind your opponent. But the reason why being behind schedule is bad is because you are behind your opponent. They don't count twice. The only way this makes sense is if you actually regress during your missed practices. That way, not only do you miss 2 practices, but it takes you 2 more practices just to get back to where you were before. Then it's like 4 missed practices total.
- smhinsey 16y agoI read it slightly differently. If you want to win, you need to do more than just practice the same amount as your opponent. If you missed 2 practices they didn't, you missed 4, the 2 you actually missed and the 2 you should be ahead of them. Sort of a "hard work generates luck" thing.
- hboon 16y agoThis sounds like it should only apply to something like basketball rebounds - if you miss 1 rebound, your opponent gets it, and thus you have the case where missing 2 rebounds is a -4.