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The Illegal Alien Problem: The Fair Solution

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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Basketball Sportscaster

What Your Basketball Sportscaster

Doesn't Want You To Know!!

Your basketball sportscaster doesn’t want you to know that virtually every basketball game is decided long before it becomes obvious. Why doesn’t he want you to know? He has a built in conflict of interest.

If you knew the game was over, you would stop listening and his sponsor would sell less soap, beer, Viagra, or whatever. It is simply a matter of money. It is his job to keep you interested until the last second. It really doesn’t matter to him that the game was decided long ago.

Well, if you buy into that, fine. But if you don’t there is a simple way to determine the winner well ahead of time. Here are the three simple steps that you can learn quickly and remember easily.

1. Round the game clock up to the next whole minute.

2. Double that number.

3. Add 1.

Let’s take an example to be sure you have the concept.

1. Say the game clock shows 3:14, round that up to 4.0

2. Double it. That is, 2 times 4 equals 8.

3. Add 1. That is, 8 plus 1 equals 9.

That’s it. When a team possesses the ball and is leading by 9 points they will win the game with a “high degree of reliability”^*.

In case you need a little extra assistance, here is a simple table to help. Remember that the winning team must have the ball at the time the win is declared.

Game Clock (Sec)	Points Needed For Win
0.01 to 1.00	3
1.01 to 2.00	5
2.01 to 3.00	7
3.01 to 4.00	9
4.01 to 5.00	11
Etc.	Etc.

^*In “statistics-speak”, they will win with a minimum reliability of 98.7 per cent at the 90 percent confidence level. In “human-speak”, this system will fail about one time in a hundred. A complete documentation of my research is contained in the Articles section of this site.

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