Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Almost Divorced


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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