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Definition of luck-to-skill ratio

Posted By: playBunny
Date: Friday, 7 August 2009, at 10:38 p.m.

In Response To: Definition of luck-to-skill ratio (Steve Mellen)

It's like saying I was unlucky to get put in a position where my lack of skill was exposed. It's a skill deficit masquerading as bad luck.

Is it, though? Consider a game that can go either of two ways depending on what your opponent does. One path leads to a game scearaio that you have mastered and where you will make few mistakes, the other leads to one which is not familiar to you and there are plenty of mistakes to be made. You opponent doesn't know what your skill set is and makes a choice based on the position alone. Your skill operates from that point on. I can't see where any masquerading fits in. For you it is good fortune to be taken into the game that you know well and bad fortune to go into the other type of game.

A real world example. You're in a cross-country car race and there's a fork in the road. One leads to a stretch of windy forest road and the other leads to marshy roads. Drivers have a choice as to which section they go through. You're better at forest driving but, when you get to the fork, the road is blocked for some reason and you must head into the marsh. Can such a forced choice be anything but a matter of luck?

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