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Making an error to lower your PR--How Stick can prove his point

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Thursday, 30 March 2017, at 2:32 p.m.

In Response To: Making an error to lower your PR--How Stick can prove his point (Phil Simborg)

"Also, the bots do not differentiate between errors at the beginning of the match and the end of the match. You get dinged the same amount for a wrong opening move on game 1 as you do in game 12. But in game 1 you might be much more correct to take some chances to "test" your opponents responses and strategies, because if you are wrong, you have plenty of time to adjust your game later, and so many more things (rolls) will happen before the end of the match, a .020 error will mean very little. But that same .020 error on the last game is more likely to cost you the match and might be a very bad gamble."

A point is a point. If the match does end up at DMP the point you lost from a bad error in the very first game of a match might mean you would have won already. Consider this analogous situation. As a handicap one basketball team grants the other a two point lead. If allowed would it be better for the coach to have it not be put on the scoreboard until there are 2 minutes left in the game when it might be "more important"?

How much is gained by doing that testing?

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