Dameerto wrote:Lev Bronstein wrote:Dameerto wrote:Lev, we're talking about playing an AWAY league game after each CL group stage game.
Me too.
As long as CL group games are held on alternate weeks AND we're away on alternate weeks, then we're EITHER at home after each CL group game OR away. Only two sets of fixtures are possible so the probability of playing either set of fixures is 1/2.As for your second post, you've just exposed the difficulties of infinity mathematics.
Fortunately, we don't need to worry about that as Sky have yet to impose the infinitely long season and UEFA haven't developed the notion of an infinite number of CL group games.
Best not give them any ideas.
It's irrelevant when the CL games are held (providing there's enough time between them to allow a Prem game to be played). There are more than two sets of possibilities for Prem fixtures as well since Prem fixtures don't occur alternately home or away - your assumptions are wrong. (For example it could be HAHAHA, AHAHAH, HHAHAA, HHHAAA, HHHHHH, AAAAAA, HHHHHA, HHHHAA, etc, etc, etc). At this point I'm repeating myself.
Although prem fixtures don't have to alternate home and away, there is a rule when generating fixtures that a team cannot be home or away more than two games in a row. So HHAAHH is possible, HHHAAA is not.
Of course in practice they aim to do HAHAHAHA etc, that they can do two in a row just gives some extra room for maneuvre when fixtures have to be changed around for various reasons (ie, because of police requests, ground shares)
I remember this being a good link on it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher ... mpute.htmlSo anyway, although the odds are probably not 1/2 as a fixture could have been moved about if necessary, the odds would almost definitely be closer to 1/2 than 1/32.
Anyway, last year everyone complained it was fixed because the first/last game was away again. Don't have that problem this year. Fans always think everyone is against them - I think I only recently started to understand the extent of this recently as I read RAWK quite a bit for fun. Admittedly they are batshit insane of course.
