Format Change.........discuss.

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Originally posted by gyroscope
Running all the way around the three bases and back to home is 1 point. You have to run to 1st, then 2nd, then third, then to home plate.

well yes but then there were people writting stuff down on cards,
and calcultaing stuff from no. of balls pitched, strikes, who was on
which base.

The bloke sitting next to me spent the first 15 mins of the game
scribbling stuff down and then told me what the final score would
be!

(the fact that I was sh1t faced probably didnt help!).

Agree with the flag comment kinda what I was trying to get at, the only function it seems to have is let the game time out as the
winning team run it back after a spectacular victory. Having seen
a team beet the opposition who then wants to see them lose to
the clock?

 

[Gyroscope]

Baseball is surrounded by some very strange, very sad people. He was comparing statistics, no doubt, minutiae like the probablity (based on past performance) a player will hit the ball at bat, how many times the 2nd baseman spits in an inning, how many pounds of force were used to tie the short-stop's shoe laces, you get the idea. It would be wierd if paintball developed a following of accountant-like fans who obsessively record and graph all the little things, like snap-shooting percentage, average time in game, average eliminations per game, etc.

I am not recommending that we get anyone to do this, incidentally. But if the league could provide me with a little bald sidekick to slap around, I would think it was a step toward the future.