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Old 10-27-2006, 11:24 PM
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Default Re: Most amazing achievement 99.9% of Americans won\'t care about

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I know the answer, but from what I understand even ardent cricket fans have trouble with the Duckworth/Lewis system (although i guess 2+2ers aren't typical).

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It's a horrible mess of a system. The only reason I'm even vaguely familiar with it's workings and have pages stored with how to calculate it is because cricket is a good sport to bet in running, and knowing what score the second side is likely to be chasing is rather a good edge to have [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Lori

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Does this system take into account the different fielding rules that are in place in different overs? How about the fact that later batsman are likely to be poorer?
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