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guy went to a surgeon for a brain transplant .... surgeon said we have 3 we can offer ...

a chimps for £50000 .. Mourinhos for £500 000 and an Irish one for £20 million ...

he looked at the surgeon and asked why is the Irish so much dearer ???

surgeon smiled ,,,its brand new ,,never been used....

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Some of you like maths here ?

What is the best football rating system in the world ?

I know of elo ratings.

Those are compiled for national teams and also for clubs.

Top of the nations list is currently Brazil with 2113 while England stands in an unflattering 1909. Greece at 1790.

In the clubs, Bayern Munich top the lists with 2116 while Chelsea are at 1922.

I have a suspicion the club ratings are less reliable than the national teams ratings.

I used the match data and elo ratings in the mathmatical analysis site zunzun.com and worked out formulas for the 90 minute result probabilities when the difference in elo ratings is given (as the elos site does not give you the formula).
The win-lose probabilities based on elo ratings had been worked out for chess and you can find them in various sites but not football.

Also FIFA have a new scale of their own but it's uncalibrated.
The old FIFA scale was unbalanced. USA was near top, but their opponents were Canada-Virgin Islands and other weakies.

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guy went to a surgeon for a brain transplant .... surgeon said we have 3 we can offer ...

a chimps for £50000 .. Mourinhos for £500 000 and an Irish one for £20 million ...

he looked at the surgeon and asked why is the Irish so much dearer ???

surgeon smiled ,,,its brand new ,,never been used....

Good joke old man!

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Alright, here is a problem for heavy types:

Find out the impossible finals in this year's world cup.

The details of the draw are displayed in the FIFA site.

(I 'm going to google it now, because maybe it has already been worked out).

edit - no there are no impossibles at the start

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Unsolved riddle from sports radio late night program:

There is a deaf man, a mute man and a blind man.

The blindman's wife cheats the blindman and she is having sex with the deaf.

The mute sees them and he wants to make it known to the blind.

How can he do this ?

Hi tech solutions not allowed.

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There is a contest in which boys and girls are taking part, divided in four groups. Small boys, big boys, small girls, big girls.

The boys are 55% of the total.

The ratio of small boys to big boys is equal to the ratio of all small to all big.

Find the ratio of small boys to small girls.

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There is a contest in which boys and girls are taking part, divided in four groups. Small boys, big boys, small girls, big girls.

The boys are 55% of the total.

The ratio of small boys to big boys is equal to the ratio of all small to all big.

Find the ratio of small boys to small girls.

Man I spent an hour trying to solve this yestersay and my equations kept reducing to x = x. Post a solution!

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Man I spent an hour trying to solve this yestersay and my equations kept reducing to x = x. Post a solution!

Harrr. Hawww.

When I was schoolboy our physics-chemistry teachers were useless and the English teachers looked like gods.

But in pure maths it was the other way round !

The story of our head (nicknamed "the Dilliger") became a film, made by one of the boys who later became movie director.

I have it somewhere in the back of an envelope. I will look.

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In obvious notation:

BS / BB = (BS + GS) / (BB + GB)

since BB = B - BS and BB + GB = T - BS - GS, it becomes

BS / (B - BS) = (BS + GS) / (T - BS - GS)

so I raise the fractions and BS . T - BS^2 - BS . GS = B . BS + B . GS - BS^2 - BS . GS

some eliminations, so BS . T = B . BS + B . GS

Call BS / GS = x

Then

x . T = B . x + B

x = x . (B/T) + B/T = 0.55 . x + 0.55

x = 0.55/0.45 = 1.22

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In obvious notation:

BS / BB = (BS + GS) / (BB + GB)

since BB = B - BS and BB + GB = T - BS - GS, it becomes

BS / (B - BS) = (BS + GS) / (T - BS - GS)

so I raise the fractions and BS . T - BS^2 - BS . GS = B . BS + B . GS - BS^2 - BS . GS

some eliminations, so BS . T = B . BS + B . GS

Call BS / GS = x

Then

x . T = B . x + B

x = x . (B/T) + B/T = 0.55 . x + 0.55

x = 0.55/0.45 = 1.22

I got that answer. But it wasn't for small boys to small girls. Maybe I messed up my notations.

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