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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 98 08:18:04 GMT
From: "Caedman Oakley" <Caedman.Oakley@uk.drsolomon.com>
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To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Handicapping
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     Ok, this one is more serious.
     
     I was talking about the whole idea with my friend Colin (non-player), 
     and we came up with the following.
     
     Rank each team with a handicap number between -x and 0.
     
     A -4 team has to score the point 4 times before it is counted i.e. the 
     disc is caught in the endzone (1), passed back out and then back in 
     (2), passed back out and then back in (3), passed back out and then 
     back in (4 and SCORE!).
     
     The beauty of this is that it prevents quick breaks from the HRT being 
     the only way they can score because it allows the LRT to get back, it 
     increases the chance of a turnover from the HRT, but it still keeps 
     the flow going.
     
     When dealing with 2 -ve numbers all you do is take the difference:
     
     -6 plays -4, then the -6 team becomes a -2 team for that game, and -4 
     becomes 0.
     
     
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