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

[ski]

The only two that come to mind for me are bowling and tennis. It has always bothered me that tennis players can win more points and still lose a match. Same with bowlers can bowl more strikes and knock more pins down and still lose.

Any other ones?

PS I do not and will never consider poker a sport...

[tuq]

According to Woody Austin, golf.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

all of them

also, wrong forum

[Dan.]

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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.

[grando]

the scoring in tennis and bowling is absurd and totally illogical

similarly, the foul-a-thon at the end of basketball games is ridiculous - you shouldn't be able to stop the clock AND gain points when you're down 10 with a minute left

[btmagnetw]

apology for ignorance, but examples on both?

tennis i can see if a player always wins after being up 40-0 and always loses after a 40-40, thereby scoring more points but i don't see how thats 100% outplaying them.

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

[amplify]

Pool. In 9-ball the break is far too powerful. Alternating break alleviates this to some extent.

[Yads]

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all of them

also, wrong forum

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[grando]

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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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someone with 6 strikes and 5 9pin spares can easily lose to someone with 4 strikes and 7 9pin spares given the scoring:

x / x / x / x / x /x = 200
/ / / x x x x / / /9 = 224

[secretprankster]

The over/under on a Donaghy post had to have been like 5.