0 or 00

[TravelinMan]

No T. And a question for all you math geniuses - how many times does 44 go into 22? ANS. It depends.

[RookieDude]

Originally posted by totalnewbie
Not to throw a buddy under a bus or anything...but...

Hey Nevada, get back in here

I think he jumped off a bridge or something...

1st time he ever screwed up a game (before it even started)

[BktBallRef]

Originally posted by gsf23
All right, here goes.

The reason that both 0 and 00 are listed as legal numbers is that because it is common practice in sports to list Zero as either number. It is not common practice to put 01, 02, 03 and so on, on a jersey. That is why they are not listed as legal numbers.

The reason they both 0 and 00 cannot be in the game is because they are the same number, just like 3 and 03, it is just not commom practice to put 03 on a jersey. If it were, they both 0 and 03 would be listed as legal numbers and only one could be used because they are the same number.

I only wrote that about three pages ago.

But nobody listened when I said it either.

[totalnewbie]

I had a 00 tonite. She was in the book as 00. Whew. I was worried I was going to have to call the T

[Brad]

Perhaps the only thing worse than reading this thead (even though I skipped pages 4-8) is posting to it. It's almost like the five car pile-up I saw on my way to work the other day: You don't want to look, but somehow you just can't help yourself.

First of all, a little history... The reason that the NFHS stopped allowing both 0 and 00 is not because it is the same number, but because computer software for statistics started becoming popular and, apparently, some of these software packages had problems allowing both 0 and 00. At least, that is the story that I heard. Or dreamt.

Regardless, the NFHS should just get rid of the 00 anyway. Does anyone actually think that the double zero is clever anymore? Really. It isn't even a real number - just something invented in Vegas to give the house a little better odds at Roulette.

Personally, I'm not worried about 00 vs 0. I probably wouldn't even notice it in the book and, if I did, I certainly wouldn't make an issue out of it (read: No T).

I do think that I may incorporate the double zero my game though. In the future, if the foul count happens to be 6-0 and the coach is b*tching about the foul count (I say "the coach" because it is universally apparent as to which coach was doing said b*tching), I may go over to the clock personnel and instruct them to make the foul count 6-00, just to make a point.

[Camron Rust]

Originally posted by JugglingReferee

Huh?

I love it!

[tomegun]

Originally posted by Camron Rust

I love it!

Hey, if someone doesn't know that isn't right!

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally posted by Camron Rust

I love it!

I figured there'd be a few fellow propeller-heads out there