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Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 9:04PM | Post a Comment Prior to running the Fund algorithms for this week I was concerned that they might both turn bet-shy which, coupled with the substantial possibility of pronounced inactivity during the weeks of the Finals, would have left Investors with a loss and no hope of mitigating it. I need not have worried.
Monday, August 29, 2011 at 9:32PM | Post a Comment This week, four pairs of teams swapped ladder positions on the MARS Ratings Leaderboard, half of them teams from MARS' top 8.
Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 7:56PM | Post a Comment It's a fraught time of year to be wagering on teams whose places in the finals have largely been determined and I can't but help feel that Investors were bitten by this fact over the weekend with the Cats perhaps 1% off their game and consequently going down to a determined Swans team playing finals footy, and the Dons doing just enough to beat Port Adelaide but nowhere near enough to cover a 70.5 points spread.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 10:03PM | Post a Comment I've railed in the past about the iniquity of the so-called "unbalanced draw", that is, the fact that teams don't get a chance to play every other team at home and away over the course of the season. Here on MAFL, railing requires empirical justification, so it's time I estimated the likely impact of this imbalance.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 10:19PM | Post a Comment I can acknowledge the beauty in them but I find it difficult to watch Olympic events such as the Ice-Skating, Gymnastics and the Diving, where the final marks are essentially deductions from perfection rather than accumulations from zero. It's for similar reasons that I loathe wagering weekends like the one we Investors are facing this week where success is largely about avoiding losses rather than about totting up gains.
