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Why always odd?

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Wednesday, 8 September 2010, at 6:19 p.m.

In Response To: My One Suggestion For Madison (Jason Lee)

Two possible reasons:

(1) Odd-length matches play more like money than even-length matches.

(2) Odd-length matches are less likely to be over quickly than even-length matches (compare 8 points vs. 9 points). An odd length tends to even out the distribution of the number of games played.

I don't know how big the effect is, or even if these statements are true. But I suspect this is the perception that led to the tradition of using odd length matches.

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