Originally posted by The Strategy Expert
Originally posted by morgan3
TSE you say your teams better than Flames, so why would you not take his bet if you think your teams better? You get to rename his team to like TSE Is My Daddy. And rename one of his players Dikless Maggot.
I just don't understand why people talk about being better than a team then when offered a bet they say no.
What about the bet of the losing team has to throw the season next year and get relegated to AAA?
You have to look at the values of the bets and the odds...
If I value my team at $10k, and he values his team at $1k (I value his team at $50 in what it is worth to myself), then a 50/50 shot of us winning or even an 80/20 shot of us winning isn't enough to justify the amount of money I'm risking on the game, I am risking a 20 percent chance on the high end of those odds of losing $10,000, but I'm not seeing anything that I can profit from in winning. If he wanted to lay out 2Gs into it then that's a different story, but what he's offering doesn't equate to a couple thousand dollars to match up with what I'm risking.
Changing just the team names is the same concept just on a smaller scale, he'd be asking me to change the name of something that is worth far more than his team. I'm not going to take a bet that doesn't have an equal payoff to me.
So it is supposedly not an even bet because you like your team more than he likes his? Every time I think I've seen you say the most absurd thing I can imagine you come back and outdo yourself again. I have to give you points for creativity and rhetorical imagination but this does not border on ludicrous - it blows right past it.
Last edited Aug 19, 2008 20:35:28