David Kheel

Simultaneously in the 99th and 1st percentile in both common sense and natural intelligence. Interests range from #DFS & Poker to 1700s common law.

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@susp3ndedffs @gabpaiz3 @JeremiahDJohns That explains one sport. Rugby union, cricket, tennis and Olympics each have a unique breakdown as well. It’s quite silly.

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@gabpaiz3 @JeremiahDJohns Way to miss his point. Puerto Rico, as far as I know, stays independent across sports - World Baseball Classic, World Cup, Olympics, etc.

It’s fine to separate. But be consistent across sports. Or at least have some rationale or concept for separating in some sports & not others

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@BrandoItalia @DreAllDay Highly probable he worked his ass off in HS/college. Boeheim wouldn’t have recruited him otherwise & certainly wouldn’t have tolerated attitude at Syracuse.

Did he have problems once he made it to the NBA? Sure. But it’s almost impossible to make it to the NBA on genetics alone.

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@Nate_Tice Crowd Noise matters. Or empty stadiums make tracking the ball visually much easier. Or both.

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@tangotiger Is there ever a point in the game, if you have 2 challenges remaining, when it’s worth it to challenge anything even remotely close? Like say a challenge with a 5% chance of working? 15% chance of working?

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@LevAkabas What’s shocking to me is only one of these is from a Game 7 in the Finals. The top 10 Baseball’s version of this is almost all WS Game 7 with only 2 exceptions (93 Carter, 92 Cabrera).

Heck 1960 WS G7 and this past year’s game 7 have multiple spots in the top 10 by themselves!

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@GBarataria @isa2001m Then she’s one of the greatest criminal masterminds of all time.

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@BigSwingTempo Put it this way - if you had offered to let him putt first despite it being your putt technically, would he have taken it? No, because he knows the advantage of getting a read from your putt. All you’re doing is removing thst advantage.

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@BigSwingTempo Fair enough. I personally don’t think it’s in bad form in a match play format. Your goal is not to shoot your best score but rather to beat/tie him on a hole by hole basis. If preventing him from getting a good read is how you do it, fine.

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@BigSwingTempo For it to be valid strategy, you have to assume your 1 putt chances without a read are significantly worse than his 1-putt chances with your read. I won’t say that’s entirety impossible but the gap can’t possibly be THAT big, no?

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@BigSwingTempo I won’t get into the spirit of the game argument.

Just from strategy - you’re forgoing your chance to win the hole - you make your putt and then he misses despite having the good read. You also are introducing the small chance your bad putt is so bad you 3-putt.

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@Gundacker @ShipMyMoneyDFS Yup. I remember an RG thread like 10 years ago focusing on which positions do well against certain pitchers - i.e. play 2nd basemen against pitcher X since for the season 2Bs are slugging .700 against pitcher X.

It was beautiful in its sheer idiocy.

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@PlusEVAnalytics If you did that, you’d have a massive increase in bloop singles, as well as doubles/triples.

The new ballpark being a dome, and using a humidor for the balls will be the main ways they will try to prevent Coors 2.0

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@scott_seiver @TylerLongo First time I ever play you in NLSD, I will value bet 98863 in this spot against you.

And I’d celebrate the genius play, and then promptly get steamrolled by you.

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@TylerLongo @scott_seiver Okay, help the NLSD n00b out. Why would that specific player tanking give Scott info (as opposed to a different player tank folding),

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@HawkEmDownChris Wow you’re a young one.

Charlie Hayes, late career Wade Boggs and Scott Brosius. Just a platter of bodies where the Yankees just said “look the team is stacked everywhere but here and catcher. Just don’t completely suck, okay?”

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@platopoker Basically, what is more important - doing nice things for a friend, or maximizing profits? And how good of a friend is he? The closer you are to him, the more valuable being nice is relative to maximizing profits.

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@dubico @BBGreatMoments Did Lowe know it wasn’t caught and just got the order of operations wrong (tag Cruz, step on base to get both)? Or did he think it was caught, so he was trying to get Cruz out for not tagging up, and only realized he actually had gotten force out at first after he stepped on it?

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@bgpeters22 @CNoll50 @RonTomczak @CoachDanCasey Makes sense. Amazed the NFL actually did something right for once.

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@CNoll50 @bgpeters22 @RonTomczak @CoachDanCasey Is it? I did not know that.