Griddle Contest: How many pitches tonight and how many hours will it take?
2007-10-15 14:27
by Bob Timmermann
There's no tangible prize for this except the respect of your peers.
Your mission: Guess the total number of pitches thrown by all four teams in tonight's LCS games and the total time elapsed for both games. If you want to put your guess into total minutes, that would help, but if not, don't worry.
The pitch and time totals will be taken from the MLB.com boxscores.
To keep in the spirit of things, please no strategic "Price is Right" style guessing. If you engage in that, you will not win the respect of your peers. And what is more important than that?
29. I'm confused. Take a look at my score again. I used my simulator and nailed the number of pitches exactly! and was only off on game lengths by 2 minutes and 33 seconds, beating Fanerman handily.
Okay.
Total Pitches: 700.
Time: 7 hrs 27 min.
425 minutes.
390 minutes
7 hours 47 minutes
580 pitches
400 minutes.
Ari: 141
Col: 149
Bos: 132
Cle: 147
Total: 569
Time: 402 minutes, 27 seconds.
vr, Xei
387 minutes
400 Minutes
I know nothing about pitches and minutes, I'm just rounding BH's picks.
If I told you, people would do it.
Andrew Shimmin will come around and demonstrate.
399 minutes
vr, Xei
565 pitches.
374 minutes.
And I want to play Cliffhanger or Plinko.
Minutes 467
Minutes 438
1000 pitches
600 minutes
I'm not an optimist.
Ten hours!
I am likely to be wrong.
597 pitches
416 minutes
290 pitches
208 minutes
A repeat of that game in the NLCS is pretty close to the average guess.
279 pitches for the NLCS, grand total of 569 pitches.
974 is the total.
Looks like fanerman gets the undying respect from his peers.
Fanerman: 980
Xeifrank: 971.45
Actual: 974
vr, Xei
/strains pitching arm patting self on back
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