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Baseball – Batting and base running strategy
Friday, March 19th, 2010
A batter squares to bunt, moving his hands up the barrel of the bat to increase his control and deaden the ball on impact. The goal of each batter is to become a base runner himself (by a base hit, a base on balls, being hit by the pitch, a fielding error, or fielder’s choice) [...]
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Baseball fielding team
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
The squad in the field is the defensive team; they attempt to prevent the baserunners from scoring. There are nine defensive positions, however, only two of the positions have a mandatory location (pitcher and catcher), the locations of the other seven fielders is not specified by the rules, except that at the moment the pitch [...]
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Parimutuel betting
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Parimutuel betting (from the French language: pari mutuel, mutual betting) is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets.The parimutuel system is used in gambling on [...]
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Betting strategy
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Betting strategies or betting systems are approaches to gambling intended to increase the odds of winning. Independent Events The following betting strategies have been recorded as being applied to games which operate on independent events. For such games, the odds of a particular outcome are identical for every bet played. No such strategy can beat [...]