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Novi Lecture Help

Posted By: Albert Steg
Date: Friday, 30 June 2017, at 2:32 a.m.

In Response To: Novi Lecture Help (Phil Simborg)

To return to your original question, I'm not aware of any earlier metrics for cube action that O'Hagan's Law displaced. This is the great value of his metric. While PRaT provides a worthwhile framework for assessing cube action, particularly for players without a huge amount of experience under their belt, O'Hagan's Law offers a more quantitative metric that can act as a starting place for cube decisions, particularly in volatile positions where the next roll really matters.

Clearly, O'Hagan's Law can't be applied uncritically, as has been noted -- but learning how to temper the 25% net benchmark with an understanding how the other 75% of the games look is part of becoming a perceptive assessor of bg positions.

I think it might be reasonable to credit O'Hagan's Law with providing a way for the player on roll to slow down and deploy a doubling tool with some analytical structure rather than playing on impression / emotion/ momentum or 'gut.'

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