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Gap on deuce doesn’t ‘ waste’ a 6. 5 can be played later on to fill the ace gap. And a deuce is far worse than a 5. So with the ace 3/2 looked clearly better than 6/5.
Speaking of game equity loss as 'percent' is rather inaccurate, grating to a math nerd's ears. Preferred usage is millipoints, mills or centipoints*, rather than 'percent'. Percent of what? - often in backgammon, the users of the term don't even know, and don't distinguish different percentages. The single-game swing is normalized to the range [-1.000, 1.000]. It would make some mathematical sense to speak of percent of that swing (gammon values are such a percent), but that's not very useful in comparing plays, and the 'percentages' you quote are double that. You could say you''re speaking of 'the percent of the swing from 0.000 to +1.000', but that is not very meaningful, since the normalized equity 0.00 does not even apply to the start of a game at any uneven match score. Granted, mathematically percent can be used for any number, and you could say you mean 'percent of an equity point', but it's a little like saying '2% of a meter' (or worse, just '2%') rather than '2 centimeters'. * Actually, I'd like to see the word 'cents' come into more common use for this. Thinking of the -1 to +1 game equity swing as if it were worth a dollar won or lost - that is a good way to think of normalized game equities, intuitive even to beginners. In this sense, a 0.250 error really does cost you '25 cents' on average.
Hossein, I applaud your efforts to commentate, annotate and show XG analysis simultaneously, and I appreciate that it's not easy and that few can do it. However, the analysis is frequently lagged or missing altogether in this video, which is tiring on the viewer. I hope you continue to improve. Personally, I would prefer to miss the commentary rather than the XG, which I rely on most (I know - uncool to admit, but true. Life is too short to watch unanalysed bg). Ideal, and perhaps easier on everyone (though more work for you) is to post-produce the analysis display (and perhaps even the annotation).
it's frustrating that galaxy deleted my comment from a few minutes ago. bg galaxy are not good people, in my opinion. i'm out. goodbye to all the nice friends i met there: i was 'jim 12'.
