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T Kyle King
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Strategic question:
I’ve wondered this about the singles matches in tennis, as well, but it also applies to golf. In situations in which the result comes down to how many individual head-to-head wins you card, is there an advantage in putting your fifth- or sixth-best player against the other team’s best player, essentially conceding that point to the opposition but setting it up so that your best player faces their second-best player, your second-best player faces their third-best player, and so on, thereby heightening your team’s chances of victory in the other matches?
Frankly, I got this idea from the Big Ten bowl tie-ins, because the Big Ten has gone .500 against the SEC in bowls over the last decade or so by sending the Big Ten’s second-best team against the SEC’s third-best team and the Big Ten’s third-best team against the SEC’s fourth- or fifth-best team in Sunshine State bowl games. When the Big Ten champion meets the SEC champion in a BCS bowl, we all know what happens. Heck, Big Ten champion Ohio State needed five ineligible players to get by an Arkansas team that was the third-best in the SEC last year.
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Maybe.
I would think there might be some scouting involved, but less so with golf than with tennis. In tennis, you have players executing their skills directly against one another, whereas in golf, they’re executing their skills against the course and comparing results. Consequently, I can see shuffling tennis around not only to try the strategy you describe but also to produce favorable head-to-head matches where possible.
At this level, perhaps it’s not worthwhile to concede anything, but I don’t know. We should ask one of the coaches if we get a chance.
by NCT on Jun 5, 2011 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Not a good start
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the Dawgs of war; - Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1
if i am looking at this chart correctly, we are doing great
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
well, TJ Mitchell is going to lose, but we are up in two others and AS in a third - we got a good chance.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
we won one, they won one - they will win another. Its not looking so good really quickly.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
It's been that way all afternoon.
For the longest time, they were up two and three were all square, then, all of a sudden, we were up two, they were up two, and the would-be tiebreaker was dead even.
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It appears as though it's coming down the English-Reed match.
And Augusta State’s Reed just kicked it into high gear to go two up on the 13th. #golfisslow
they are 2 up through 15 - that is VERY bad. i want to say a very bad word.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
And they're playing the hardest hole in the world!
by NCT on Jun 5, 2011 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I just checked, and
Reed has played the 17th better over the course of the tournament.
by NCT on Jun 5, 2011 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions
my gosh - how long are they going to be on the 16th
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
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