Barb had been very critical of my program and my picks last
year because I picked a lot of players from the same team even though they were
very low scorers but I thought if they played enough games they would
eventually get some points. But they
didn't. So Barb had a new idea and she
tried to explain it to me. She felt that
we should pick high scorers on teams that might not go very far just because
they are high scorers and would be sure to get us some points. So I changed my program to give the high
scorers on each team extra weight and I didn't include low scorers on my list
at all. Then when we started the draft,
Barb was whispering in my ear about who I should pick even though they might
not be the first available on my list. I
got mad at her for changing my system and she kept trying to explain that I
didn't understand the system that she had told me to use. In the fourth round, I picked the highest
scorer available but he was on a team that wouldn't go far and Barb got very
upset because I didn't understand what I was supposed to be doing. She blamed herself for not explaining her
system correctly to me. I told her that
her system wasn't a system at all. After
that we tried to work together and we did much better and after it was all over
she did a better job of explaining her system which tried to combine relatively
high scorers on good teams in earlier picks and in the last few picks when most
of the good players on the good teams were gone, pick a high scorer on a poor
team. I tried to change my program to
implement her system next year but I couldn't figure out any way to do it. So Barb wants us to have two lists next year,
one with great and good players on good teams for early picks and another with
great players on poor teams for later picks.
Its no use getting divorced over a hockey pool.
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