mrjames
Professor
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Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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01-10-17 06:24 PM - Post#217937
In response to SomeGuy
Bingo. Yeah, if the bottom 3 go 2-12 (or some other combo of the six wins they have to share), then you've got a +30 W total to spread amongst the top 5. All five could go 4-4 against each other, which would put them all at 10-4 - one of the five would lose out in some super-odd tiebreaker. Or one of the five could go 5-3 with three going 4-4 and one going 3-5. I think that 9-5 is the best you can do and still finish solo fifth. And, of course, the odds of 9-5 being solo fifth require such a specific sequence of results that 8-6 is probably the realistic best you could do and still miss out.
I've never been good at these types of problems, though, so my logic could be off somewhere.
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