Tag: gambling

Wisdom that Caught My Eye and Brain

900,000 vs 9.

It takes about 900,000 minutes to become a board-certified dermatologist. At that point, you might be very skilled and well-informed.

It takes less than nine minutes to make your patient feel seen, understood and reassured.

If you skip the 9 minutes, you wasted the 900,000.

Seth Godin

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Late Night is Dying Because of the Format Not The Hosts

With the death of vaudeville and variety shows, you can observe how new technologies change the economic landscape of media and narrow viewers’ tastes. With vaudeville, it was motion pictures, and with variety shows, it was cable TV. With late-night, it’s playing out over the internet and social media.

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Gambling Is Killing Sports and Consuming America

Gambling doesn’t just sponsor sports games. It shapes them, deciding which matchups are worth watching and how players are covered. Gambling doesn’t just buy ads. It owns sports networks, producing shows that prod fans to bet ever more.

Today, the gambling companies wield far more power over sports than the leagues or team owners ever did. News media outlets have criticized commissioners, players and executives for decades. But I can’t recall a single major sports broadcast program or publication willing to take gambling companies on directly. My friends in sports journalism tell me this is the one topic they can’t speak up about — not without risking their careers.

Joon Lee

What are the Odds?

Pickleball, much like poker, is a game of percentages. While we may not have a Vegas sportsbook setting the lines, certain odds feel inevitable on the court. Here’s a look at the numbers behind the game, based on highly scientific ??? (and totally not made-up) research.

There is a 90% chance if I register more than 10 seconds after sign-ups open for 70% of Meetups or TeamReach events, I’m deep on the waitlist. Every. Single. Time.

When there is a volley fire fight among the other three players on my court, there is a 60% chance that I will dump the ball into the net when the first volley is hit to me.

I own a 66.6% success rate on “shots I should make 100% of the time.”

If I poach 25% from the right side, there is a 75% chance I will piss off 60% of my partners playing on the left side. The remaining 40%? They just haven’t spoken up yet.

3% of players are who 80% of players don’t want to partner or play with.

In 84% of intermediate-level games, less than 10% of total shots attempted are dinks.

There is a 100% chance that the Meetup app can be improved and a 0% chance that I would ever sign up for Meetup + no matter how many times I get solicited for the service when using the free app.

In rec play, 88% of close line calls called “out” are accurate; 74% of close line calls called “in” are accurate. However in the late stages of a closely contested game, 70% of close line calls called “out” are accurate. In the pro pickleball, the odds are less than 50-50 for accurate line calls in the late stages of a closely contested game.