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Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?

Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier
Date: Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 10:16 p.m.

In Response To: Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed? (Jason Lee)

I do believe that the side rolling more doubles will win more games on average, since backgammon is basically a race and rolling more pips wins more on average. But I don't see any reason to believe that doublets are generally jokers. As to whether doublets are jokers more often than non-doublet jokers, I don't know.

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• Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
  trichard -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 8:36 p.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    Keene -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 8:58 p.m.
    • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
      Bill Riles -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 10:01 p.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    pontiac -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 9:17 p.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 9:27 p.m.
    • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
      Jason Lee -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 9:53 p.m.
      • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 10:16 p.m.
        • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
          Jason Lee -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 10:32 p.m.
        • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
          Caryl Stephanson -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 12:03 a.m.
          • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 12:35 a.m.
          • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
            Jason Lee -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 2:19 a.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    dc-ohio -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 10:36 p.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    Tom Keith -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 11:02 p.m.
    • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
      Mislav Radica -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 11:43 p.m.
      • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
        Tom Keith -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 12:40 a.m.
        • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
          Bill Riles -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 1:25 a.m.
          • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 2:07 a.m.
            • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
              Bill Riles -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 2:20 a.m.
              • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 3:00 a.m.
              • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
                Stick -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 3:44 a.m.
                • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
                  Bill Riles -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 3:59 a.m.
                  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
                    Jason Lee -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 5:25 a.m.
                    • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
                      Bill Riles -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 2:17 p.m.
          • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
            Jason Lee -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 2:22 a.m.
            • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
              Bill Riles -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 3:01 a.m.
              • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
                Jason Lee -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 3:37 a.m.
    • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 11:48 p.m.
      • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
        Tom Keith -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 12:42 a.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    Barry Silliman -- Thursday, 9 October 2008, at 11:52 p.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    Dan Pelton -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 12:04 a.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    Sam Pottle -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 1:19 a.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    Ilia Guzei -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 2:25 a.m.
  • a rule change
    garyo -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 5:04 a.m.
  • Two suggestions on how to improve skill factor in tournaments
    rew -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 8:48 a.m.
  • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
    Mislav Radica -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 9:03 a.m.
    • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 4:57 p.m.
      • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
        Bill Riles -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 5:28 p.m.
        • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 5:50 p.m.
          • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
            Bill Riles -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 5:54 p.m.
            • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 5:55 p.m.
              • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                Bill Riles -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 6:02 p.m.
                • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                  Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 6:13 p.m.
                  • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                    Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 7:46 p.m.
                    • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 8:30 p.m.
                      • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                        Bob Koca -- Monday, 13 October 2008, at 4:09 p.m.
                        • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                          Jason Lee -- Monday, 13 October 2008, at 4:21 p.m.
                          • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                            Bob Koca -- Monday, 13 October 2008, at 4:27 p.m.
                        • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 13 October 2008, at 5:32 p.m.
                          • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                            Sam Pottle -- Monday, 13 October 2008, at 6:49 p.m.
          • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
            Mislav Radica -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 7:57 p.m.
            • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 8:37 p.m.
              • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 11:42 p.m.
                • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                  Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 11:55 p.m.
                  • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                    Maik Stiebler -- Saturday, 11 October 2008, at 9:07 a.m.
                    • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Saturday, 11 October 2008, at 3:58 p.m.
                      • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                        Bob Koca -- Monday, 13 October 2008, at 3:42 p.m.
                        • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 13 October 2008, at 5:29 p.m.
                        • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                          Maik Stiebler -- Wednesday, 15 October 2008, at 6:58 a.m.
                • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                  Bob Koca -- Monday, 13 October 2008, at 4:14 p.m.
            • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
              Mislav Radica -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 8:45 p.m.
              • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 8:55 p.m.
            • More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
              Sam Pottle -- Saturday, 11 October 2008, at 11:35 p.m.
    • Yes, yes, and yes again-nt
      neilkaz -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 5:12 p.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    Maik Stiebler -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 10:58 a.m.
    • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
      pontiac -- Friday, 10 October 2008, at 11:48 a.m.
  • Luck vs. Skill - Is A Rules Change Needed?
    Bob Koca -- Monday, 13 October 2008, at 4:22 p.m.