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Open Player Survey Conclusion

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 12:54 p.m.

In Response To: Open Player Survey (Matt Cohn-Geier)

Thank you all for your feedback. Most insightful. If most great players do not crunch the numbers most of the time, then most of the cube decisions are made as a result of experience, reference positions, and estimating the wins/losses/gammons as values such as "a lot of wins" or "too many gammons" etc. Obviously this works, as most of you are making the correct decisions most of the time.

My problem is that in teaching intermediate players, their lack of reference positions, experience and skill makes this approach far less likely to lead to the right cube decision. I cannot give them experience, only methodology, and I have been teaching that making some kind of guess at the numbers, no matter how far off, is better than not making any guess at all.

I will have to give this more thought, but in the meantime, I appreciate the feedback, and I feel less "guilty" about not crunching the numbers as much as I thought I should be doing myself.

Messages In This Thread

• Open Player Survey
  Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 4:33 p.m.
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    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 4:41 p.m.
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      Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 8:26 p.m.
      • Open Player Survey
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 3:00 a.m.
        • Open Player Survey Conclusion
          Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 12:54 p.m.
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            jdg -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 1:05 p.m.
            • Open Player Survey Conclusion
              Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 1 October 2009, at 4:20 p.m.
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                Phil Simborg -- Thursday, 1 October 2009, at 4:35 p.m.
                • Open Player Survey Conclusion
                  Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 1 October 2009, at 10:14 p.m.
                  • Open Player Survey Conclusion
                    Jason Lee -- Thursday, 1 October 2009, at 11:11 p.m.
              • Open Player Survey Conclusion
                jdg -- Thursday, 1 October 2009, at 6:38 p.m.
          • Open Player Survey Conclusion
            Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 1:46 p.m.
            • Lessons from Racquetball lessons
              Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 3:38 p.m.
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                Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 10:36 p.m.
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                    Phil Simborg -- Friday, 2 October 2009, at 6:47 a.m.
          • Open Player Survey Conclusion
            Perry Gartner -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 4:28 p.m.
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    Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 5:27 p.m.
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    David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 5:54 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 7:12 p.m.
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    David -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 7:24 p.m.
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    Gregg Cattanach -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 7:34 p.m.
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    neilkaz -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 7:55 p.m.
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    Chiva Tafazzoli -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 10:03 p.m.
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    John O'Hagan -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 11:21 p.m.
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      Joe Russell -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 8:26 a.m.
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        neilkaz -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 3:57 p.m.
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    misja -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 7:48 a.m.
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    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 8:36 a.m.
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    Fabrice Liardet -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 12:24 p.m.
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    Keene -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 3:12 p.m.
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    Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 4:38 p.m.