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Open Player Survey Conclusion

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Thursday, 1 October 2009, at 11:11 p.m.

In Response To: Open Player Survey Conclusion (Daniel Murphy)

It's basically one of the things wrong with Bell's book, as I recall from reading it several years ago -- making you memorize yet another formula to plug imprecise guesstimations into.

GIGO.

I think that another problem is that all of the formulas were just some ad hoc thing. It's very different from using something like the Keith Count or the Kleinman Count. The Kleinman Count has a wonderful attribute of being theoretically derived, and the Keith Count was empirically derived, and then shown to be superior (on average) to some other race cube counts. I feel like Bell just tossed some numbers around. Bell made a real effort, but I would never recommend his formulas the way I endorse the Keith Count.

There is some good stuff in Bell's book, though.

JLee

Messages In This Thread

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  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.
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        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.
              • Open Player Survey Conclusion
                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.
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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.
  • Open Player Survey
    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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      Steve Mellen -- Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 11:09 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.