Buttface
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They only need 2 days for a test match.
Cricket Season Thread
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Jedi_Tiger
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I know God knows how thw poms will handle and survive starc on a wet pitch after a few days of rain has me a bit nervous
Greg Chappell slamming the batsmen as SOFT at MCG:
"It was the batters’ reactions: gestures of disbelief, muttered oaths, wry smiles as they trudged off, as if they alone had been cursed by a rogue delivery in the sport’s long history. They behaved like novices encountering adversity for the first time, oblivious to the blood, sweat, and sheer willpower that have sustained Test cricket through far worse trials. via SMH"
"It was the batters’ reactions: gestures of disbelief, muttered oaths, wry smiles as they trudged off, as if they alone had been cursed by a rogue delivery in the sport’s long history. They behaved like novices encountering adversity for the first time, oblivious to the blood, sweat, and sheer willpower that have sustained Test cricket through far worse trials. via SMH"
Tucker
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Good on him, that’s what I saw as well.
Head laughing after he was just clean bowled, pretty much acting like it was the ball of the century pissed me off a bit.
This is Test cricket. When things aren’t going your way you are meant to dig in and either wait for opportunities or you find ways to create them.
Our batsmen, more often than not just give in when shit gets hard.
We definately need blokes who value their wicket as much as Bill Lawry did.
Buttface
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I hope Starcy finishes of the season with 10 wkt match. He’s been great.
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Buttface
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Crap betting options for the cricket on the TAB app.
Jedi_Tiger
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in a past life i used to do pricing for some of the agencies, the tab generally are not the most generous. Did think $6 draw if the rain comes first 2 days might be good value.
Before the mcg the draw for scg was $7.50, $7.50 to $6 has been a big weight of money to shift it in 1.5 points
Buttface
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Pricing for betting agencies? Not your everyday job.
Tucker
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I hope this will be our last New Years Test in Sydney.
The weather sux and it usually finishes a tour on a boring note.
It needs to move to before Christmas.
The weather sux and it usually finishes a tour on a boring note.
It needs to move to before Christmas.
Jedi_Tiger
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yeah it was a pretty fun job accept the hours were bad when you were on the overseas sports or the dogs in Ireland or something the pools were small.
offf topic but generally horse racing markets for a staturday are framed at around 125% so that basically means the bookies aim for a 25% profit on the book for that race. Closer you get to race time the market tightens to around 115%
The bookie's percentages are calculated by dividing each horse’s decimal odds into 100, and then adding them all together to calculate the total percentage
e.g. if a horse is 2.50 then 100 ÷ 2.50 = 40% of the market you would then add up all the percentages of the horses in the field and that would be the market.
General rule of thumb is 1% per runner so if it is a 12 horse field then the market should aim to hit 112% etc a 10 horse field 110%
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Buttface
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@Halbrowne61 you taking this in? You probably already know, I’m sure I’ve been told this before but there’s nothing like refresher training.
Thanks Jedi, I love numbers. I walk The Fonz with a bloke and his Husky, he has a degree in math. I like our chats and his Husky. I think that’s why I like cricket, it’s a game of individual numbers that go into a team of numbers that works together.
Well hopefully works together.
