> > Not always a winning formula -- cf Lebanon in '06 -- but the
> > only formula available to them.
>
> Noted. But if you hit over .300 lifetime in baseball's major leagues,
> meaning that you strike out or are put out 68-70 percent of the time,
> you usually enter the Hall of Fame. Israel's hitting somewhere in
> the .800-plus range. Monster figures.
Let's hear it for regression to the mean.