sports where you can 100% outplay your opponent and lose?

[MicroBob]

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This thread is turning horrible really quickly.

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This thread's premis was horrible in the first place.

What the hell does "100% outplay" mean?
Is that somehow different than 75% outplaying your opponent?

In every sport you can "outplay" your opponent and lose. But I have no clue what the 100% part means.


I saw a minor-league baseball game where one guy threw a no-hitter and won but clearly threw the inferior game.
He had 5 walks and 3 K's or something.
So many balls that were hit were absolutely CRUSHED. The 3B made 2 amazing diving catches on absolute bullets.
It was the worst no-hitter ever.

The other pitcher threw a 2-hitter with 12 K's. He was positively dominating.
The only run that scored was a wind-blown bloop that barely stayed fair down the short left-field line for a HR.

It was one of the best pitching performances possible and he lost to one of the worst no-hitters possible.

[SixT4]

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Boxing (you can win all rounds then lose by a corrupt judge's decision)



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[Assani Fisher]

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You can get more hits in baseball and lose.
You can score more baskets in basketball and lose.
You can gain more yards in football and lose.
Blah blah blah.
This thread sucks.

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you're missing the point of the thread

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no hes not. Just as in bowling its the timing of your strikes, in football its the timing of your yards.

[Assani Fisher]

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This is an interesting topic that is just too much for OOTiots. It's just waiting to have people come in and give retarted half-baked answers without understanding the premise.

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Its really not that interesting....

there are 0 sports in which you can 100% outplay your opponent and lose.

In every sport you can outplay your opponent and lose.

[guids]

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guids -

i like you but you're waaaay out of your element with the baseball argument.

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ya, I dont doubt it, I only know the strategy of soccer, and only played a little HS baseball. We just were taught to always swing for a base hit, so I put that akin to "playing teh best cards" and wait for the long term, I just figured in baseball it the long term wasnt very long.

[gusmahler]

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multiple strikes in a row is a function of luck and repetition, not skill

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lol

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For everyone laughing at this quote, if he meant what I think he meant, it is essentially true.

If you have two bowlers who get strikes on 50% of their throws, the distribution of those strikes will vary greatly from game to game. One game you might get a strike every other frame and the next you might rattle off 3 or 4 in a row and while you didn't actually play any better, your score improves. The way it is scored just adds another level of luck to the game. I think he is just saying that controlling that distribution isn't a repeatable skill.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah I agree, I thought it was weird everyone was laughing at it.


[/ QUOTE ]People are laughing at it because it is wrong.

[skunkworks]

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This is an interesting topic that is just too much for OOTiots. It's just waiting to have people come in and give retarted half-baked answers without understanding the premise.

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Its really not that interesting....

there are 0 sports in which you can 100% outplay your opponent and lose.

In every sport you can outplay your opponent and lose.

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I outplayed your mom in a 100-man onslaught.

Really though, I think you are interpreting the word "outplay" a bit more stringently than everyone else.

[Francis_MH]

Boxing is interesting, in that you can dominate an opponent for 11 rounds, landing much more jabs and power punches than your opponent, and in the 12th round, one lucky, desperate haymaker thrown wildy out of control can hit you in the right spot on your jaw and knock you out. You were dominating him technically, he got desperate and got lucky.

[iSTRONG]

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multiple strikes in a row is a function of luck and repetition, not skill

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lol

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Don't lol too much... google "hot hand fallacy" first.

[NozeCandy]

I immediately though of soccer when I saw this thread. Helloooooooo penalty kicks.