Poll
Why would anyone stay instead of running with a 4-3?
To give you 1's, 2's and 3's to hit instead of just 4's?
Question: Move 
Option 1: 7/5, 7/6
votes: 3
Option 2: 7/4
votes: 2
Option 3: 6/4, 5/4
votes: 0
Option 4: 6/4, 2/1
votes: 0
Option 5: 6/5, 6/4
votes: 0
Title: Game 3, move 21:Herd 2-1
Post by: diane on October 30, 2013, 06:46:05 PM
Post by: diane on October 30, 2013, 06:46:05 PM
Read em and weep..as they say. You cant play with what might have beens, we know...but..well lets say - this would have been a better hitting roll than a running roll ;)
So, how are we maximising this 2-1?
So, how are we maximising this 2-1?
Title: Re: Game 3, move 21:Herd 2-1
Post by: stog on October 30, 2013, 08:14:57 PM
Post by: stog on October 30, 2013, 08:14:57 PM
i had liked my choice b4 leaving a backstop, but it wouldn't have been able to hit, in fact it would have then been hittable. (whether Roderick would have stayed back in the board, if we'd left a backstop, leaving our 2/1 to pick and pass, is another unknowable ;)
Title: Re: Game 3, move 21:Herd 2-1
Post by: Roderick on October 30, 2013, 09:03:43 PM
Post by: Roderick on October 30, 2013, 09:03:43 PM
What pick and pass? Double 4's would make me a big favorite anyway - you'd likely leave it on the 8 when you hit as an extra cover number.
Title: Re: Game 3, move 21:Herd 2-1
Post by: stog on October 30, 2013, 09:22:40 PM
Post by: stog on October 30, 2013, 09:22:40 PM
if u had stayed on the 4, because of a backstop on 13, which you wouldn't, then a 2/1 would have allowed us to p&p
a lot of maybes and might haves!!
a lot of maybes and might haves!!
Title: Re: Game 3, move 21:Herd 2-1
Post by: Roderick on October 30, 2013, 09:34:50 PM
Post by: Roderick on October 30, 2013, 09:34:50 PM
Why would anyone stay instead of running with a 4-3?
To give you 1's, 2's and 3's to hit instead of just 4's?
Title: Re: Game 3, move 21:Herd 2-1
Post by: Zorba on October 30, 2013, 10:40:35 PM
Post by: Zorba on October 30, 2013, 10:40:35 PM
Spoiler
7/6 7/5 looks like too high stacks in combination with the open 4pt. If we didn't have checkers on our lower points already, it might not be too bad, but here 6/2 to play fours is quite bad as it stacks the low 2pt further and 5/1 is not much better as it unstacks the wrong point and might lead to bad fives (6/1) later.
So fill in the fourpoint looks right, 5/4 unstacks the wrong point again there, so 6/4 with the two, then 7/6 looks like the best one making the crossover.
So fill in the fourpoint looks right, 5/4 unstacks the wrong point again there, so 6/4 with the two, then 7/6 looks like the best one making the crossover.
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