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Hopefully this game will be fun for you Sheep fans. Here are the questions for those that don't feel like clicking: 1. A great President 2. A Canadian Provence 3. Something people do for exercise 4. A mythical animal 5. A sport with a small ball 6. Something you make with eggs 7. _______...

What's an "awful sheep day"? :cool:

EXACTLY how I'd have worded it. :confused:

I have a really good system (which I started used semi-recently) that isn't cheating, but I'm fairly certain almost nobody else uses. It comes in handy on at least half the questions. At some point, I'd like to reveal it, but I don't want to give away my secrets either... But like any other...

I had no idea there was even a season over here, and I check this board at least every 2-3 days. Was it recently?

BTW, mad respect if you guys can come over there and compete at the top. I'm consistently in the Top 3 for the season on the Terps board, but when I used to play seasons over here, I'd be in the 10-15 range. I think it's just subtle cultural differences or something, I dunno, but it's...

Tough draw. ;) Who is barrpet11? Did he ever have a different name?

It depends who wins. Look at the numbers I posted earlier in the thread - it's a little complicated. Taking two random scenarios from guys near the top of the leaderboard right now: If Adam Scott wins the tournament, for Webb to win the Cup: - Webb would have to finish solo 12th or better...

This is a good chart with the FedEx Cup scenarios: http://www.pgatour.com/2011/fedexcup/09/20/scenarios/index.html Or if you want to do your own math, Points coming in (The points reset to a pre-determined amount after last week. This is the second year of this system, and I like it. It's...

Thanks for this thread. I got my wife to call last night, and after about a 20 minute conversation with some retention guy from Idaho (I literally had to feed her Boise State facts during her conversation), we got Sunday Ticket free for the season. We had to threaten to cancel service under...

He said your next shot doesn't count double in that case.

Who needs math when you have Excel? Just mess with the numbers in the third row if you want to change any of the parameters.

By shooting for the blue every time you can, you have an EV of 154.208333... points in the game.

LOL @ your complicated formulas. Attempt 1: 0.6 * 7.5 Attempts 2 thru 20: 0.24 * 7.5 + 0.36 * 15 ANSWER = (0.6*7.5) + 19 * (0.24*7.5 + 0.36*15) = 141.3 Hello, new Wake board.