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Winocki
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 Posted: 11/30/2004, 7:51 am Post subject: Why the fascination with 200? |
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Why all the hoopla for 200 consecutive starts? Next week when Favre starts his 201st consecutive game, you won't hear or see even a tenth of the hoopla. Yet 201 consecutive starts is a greater accomplishment than 200 consecutive starts.
Same thing with Barry Bonds and his 700th HR. When he hit his 701st HR, no one cared. Yet 701 HRs is a greater accomplishment than 700 HRs.
Perhaps someone could shed some light on this. |
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that70sguy10
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| Posted: 11/30/2004, 9:41 am Post subject: |
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there even numbers...
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Winocki
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| Posted: 11/30/2004, 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| that70sguy10 wrote: |
| there even numbers... |
So in two weeks when he gets to 202, there will be even more hoopla? |
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Patrick
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that70sguy10
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| Posted: 11/30/2004, 11:07 am Post subject: |
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the hoopla is bc not many players in any sport play 200 straight games and are still going... needless to say in the nfl where the average player only plays 50-75 in their entire career.
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Triumvirate
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I think I remembering reading somewhere that they have a term for it, they call them "milestone numbers", it can vary from sport to sport, or situation to situation, but milestone numbers are usually multiples of 10s or 100s, etc. So for some sports/situations a milestone could be 10 or 20 or 30, whereas in this case it happened to be that the milestone numbers would be counted by 100, 200, etc. I think they measure this based on averages of number of games played or some such thing like that, I'd have to see if I could track down the article again.
Also, another possibility is that it comes from fascination with numbers ending in 0, I believe the term for these numbers is "clean" numbers or some other such thing, but there was a study done, possibly some years ago, I don't have much of a head for dates so I couldn't say, that humans tend to like clean numbers because they look better, similar to the idea of milestone numbers, but not exactly the same.
Well, I guess that'll teach me to throw away all those articles I always considered useless trivia.
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Winocki
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| Posted: 11/30/2004, 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Triumvirate wrote: |
| Also, another possibility is that it comes from fascination with numbers ending in 0, I believe the term for these numbers is "clean" numbers or some other such thing, but there was a study done, possibly some years ago, I don't have much of a head for dates so I couldn't say, that humans tend to like clean numbers because they look better, similar to the idea of milestone numbers, but not exactly the same. |
That helps explain it.
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| the hoopla is bc not many players in any sport play 200 straight games and are still going... needless to say in the nfl where the average player only plays 50-75 in their entire career. |
If that were true, then there would be even more hoopla when a player reaches 213 consecutive starts. 213 consecutive starts is reached less often than 200 consecutive starts. But we still don't know precisely why humans like clean, round numbers. |
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