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

[tpir]

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.

[grando]

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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

[ski]

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Same with bowlers can bowl more strikes and knock more pins down and still lose.

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I'll bite. Explain please.

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if bowling if u bowl

Strike 1 1 5x in a row you are going to lose to someone who bowls 5 strikes and then gutter balls the rest of the game.

You 5 strikes +10 pins 70 points.
him 5 strikes +0 pins. 120 points.

[NhlNut]

Hockey
A hot goaltender can steal a game singlehandedly. A playoff series even.

[vikefan24]

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don't get bowling enough to figure out how knocking more pins -> less points.

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Complete guess since I haven't bowled forever and don't know everything about scoring but what if someone spares and 9s and the other person had strikes and 8s. Wouldn't the person with the spares and 9s have knocked down more pins but have fewer points assuming they were in the same order as the other bowler?

edit: two people cleared it up before me but I think I was on the right page [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Triumph36]

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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.

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none of these are necessarily indications of outplaying your opponent.

[BuckyK]

Boxing (you can win all rounds then lose by KO because you dropped your hand for half a second)

Golf (Phil Mickelson)

Olympic figure skating

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Same with bowlers can bowl more strikes and knock more pins down and still lose.

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I'll bite. Explain please.

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I think this is right:

X X X X X X X X 9- XX9 = 266 (10 strikes, 118 pins)
X X X X X X X X 8/ X9/ = 268 (9 strikes, 110 pins)

[grando]

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don't get bowling enough to figure out how knocking more pins -> less points.

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Complete guess since I haven't bowled forever and don't know everything about scoring but what if someone spares and 9s and the other person had strikes and 8s. Wouldn't the person with the spares and 9s have knocked down more pins but have fewer points assuming they were in the same order as the other bowler?

I may be way off here

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you're on the right track

bowling rewards multiple strikes in a row much much more than strikes scattered about

[guids]

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Hockey
A hot goaltender can steal a game singlehandedly. A playoff series even.

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I think this is a great example.


also, soccer, a team can completely dominate, have more possesion time, more shots on net, etc, and still lose if they are unlucky for a split second.