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The Basics of Betting as a Way of Keeping Score…
Another preparatory step before I start learning about stats in the context of Formula One… There are a couple of things I'm hoping to achieve when I actually start the journey: 1) finding ways of using stats to help to pull out patterns and events that are interesting from a storytelling or news perspective; 2) seeing if I can come up with any models that help forecast or predict race winners or performances over a race weekend.
There are a couple of problems I can foresee (?!) when it comes to the predictions: firstly, unlike horseracing, there aren't that many F1 races each year to test the predictions against. Secondly, how do I even get a baseline start on the probabilities that driver X or team Y might end up on the podium?
It seems to me as if betting odds provide one publicly available "best guess" at the likelihood of any driver winning a race (a range of other bets are possible, of course, that give best guess predictions for other situations…) Having had a sheltered life, the world of betting is completely alien to me, so here's what I think I've learned so far…
Odds are related to the anticipated likelihood of a particular event occurring and represent the winnings you get back (plus your stake) if a particular event happens. So 2/1 (2 to 1) fractional odds say: if the event happens, you'll get 2 back for every 1 you placed, plus your stake back. If I bet 1 unit at 2/1 and win, I get 3 back: my original 1 plus 2 more. If I bet 3, I get 9 back: my original 3 plus 2 for every 1 I placed. Since I placed 3 1s, I get back 3 x 2 = 6 in winnings. Plus my original 3, which gives me 9 back on 3 staked, a profit of 6.
Odds are related (loosely) to the likelihood of an event happening. 2/1 odds represent a likelihood (probability) that an event will happen (1/3) = 0.333… of the time (to cur down on confusion between fractional odds and fractional probabilities, I'll try to remember to put the fractional probabilities in brackets; so 1/2 is fractional odds of 2 to 1 on, and (1/2) is a probability of one half). To see how this works, consider an evens bet, fractional odds of 1/1, such as someone might make for tossing a coin. The probability of getting heads on a single toss is (1/2); the probability of getting tails is also (1/2). If I'm giving an absolutely fair book based on these likelihoods, I'd offer you even odds that you get a head, for example, on a single toss. After all, it's (fifty/fifty) (fifty per cent chance either way) of whether a heads or tails will land face up. If there are three equally possible outcomes, (1/3) each, then I'd offer 2/1. After all, it's twice as likely that something other than the single outcome you called would come up. If there are four possible outcomes, I'd offer 3/1, because it's likely (if we played repeatedly) that three times out of four, you'd be wrong. So every three times out of four you'd lose and I'd take your stake. And on the fourth go, when you get it right, I give you your stake back for that round plus three for winning, so over all we'd be back where we started.
Decimal odds are a way of describing the return you get on a unit stake. So for a 2/1 bet, the decimal odds are three. For a 4/1 bet they'd be 5. For an N/1 bet they'd be 1+N. For an 1/2 (two to one on?) bet they'd be 1.5, for a 1/10 bet they'd be 1.1. So for a 1/M bet, 1+1/M. Generally, for an N/M bet, decimal odds are 1+N/M.
Decimal odds give an easy way in to calculating the likelihood of an event. Decimal odds of 3, (that is, fractional odds 2/1), describe an event that will happen (1/3) of the time in a fair game. That is (1/(decimal odds)) of the time. For fractional odds of N/M, you expect the event to happen with probability (1/(1+N/M))
In a completely fair book (?my phrase), the sum of the odds should lead to the summed probability of all possible events happening of 1. Bookmakers right the odds in their favour though, so the summed probabilities on a book will add up to more than 1 – this represents the bookmaker's margin. If you're betting on the toss of a coin with a bookie, they may offer you 99/100 for heads, evens for tails. If you play 400 games and bet 300 heads and 200 tails, winning 100 of each, you'll overall stake 400, win 100 (plus 100 back) on tails along with 99 (plus 100 original stake) on heads. That is, you'll have staked 400 and got back 399. The bookie will be 1 up overall. The summed probabilities add up to more than 1, since (1/2) + (1/(1+99/100)) = (0.5 + ~0.5025) > 1.
One off bets are no basis for a strategy. You need to bet regularly. One way of winning is to follow a value betting strategy where you place bets on outcomes that you predict are more likely than the odds you're offered. This is counter to how the bookie works. If a bookie offers you fractional odds of 3/1 (expectation that the event will happen (1/4) of the time), and you have evidence that suggests it will happen (1/3) of the time (decimal odds of 3, fractional odds 2/1) then it's worth your while repeatedly accepting the bet. After all, if you play 12 rounds, you'll wager 12, and win on 12/3=4 occasions, getting 4 back (3 + your stake) each time, to give you a net return of 4 x 4 – 12 = 16 – 12 = +4. If the event had happened at the bookie's predicted likelihood of 1/4 of the time, you would have got back ( 12/4 ) * 4 – 12 = +0 overall.
I've tried to do an R script to explore this:
#My vocabulary may be a bit confused herein #Corrections welcome in the comments from both statisticians and gamblers;-) #The offered odds price=4 #3/1 -> 3+1 That is, the decimal odds on fractional odds of 3/1 odds=1/price #The odds I've predicted myodds=1/3 #2/1 -> 1/(2+1) #The number of repeated trials in the game trials=10000 #The amount staked bet=1 #The experiment that we'll run trials number of times expt=function(trials,odds,myodds,bet){ #trial sets a uniform random number in ranger 0..1 df=data.frame(trial=runif(1:trials)) #The win condition happens at my predicted odds, ie if trial value is less than my odds #So if my odds are (1/4) = 0.25, a trial value in range 0..0.25 counts as a win # (df$trial<myodds) is TRUE if trial < myodds, which is cast by as.integer() to value 1 # If (df$trial<myodds) is FALSE, as.integer() returns 0 df$win=as.integer(df$trial<myodds) df$bet=bet #The winnings are calculated at the offered odds and are net of the stake #The df$win/odds = 1/odds = price (the decimal odds) on a win, else 0 #The actual win is the product of the stake (bet) and the decimal odds #The winnings are the return net of the initial amount staked #Where there is no win, the winnings are a loss of the value of the bet df$winnings=df$bet*df$win/odds-df$bet df } df.e=expt(trials,odds,myodds,bet) #The overall net winnings sum(df.e$winnings) #If myodds > odds, then I'm likely to end up winning on a value betting strategy #A way of running the experiment several times #There are probably better R protocols for doing this? runs=10 df.r=data.frame(s=numeric(),v=numeric()) for (i in 1:runs){ e=expt(trials,odds,myodds,bet) df.r=rbind(df.r,data.frame(s=sum(e$winnings),v=sd(e$winnings))) } #It would be nice to do some statistical graphics demonstrations of the different distributions of possible outcomes for different regimes. For example: ## different combinations of odds and myodds ## different numbers of trials ## different bet sizes
There are apparently also "efficient" ways of working out what stake to place (the "staking strategy"). The value strategy gives you the edge to win, long term, the staking strategy is how you maximise profits. See for example Horse Racing Staking and Betting: Horse racing basics part 2 or more mathematical treatments, such as The Kelly Criterion or Statistical Methodology for Profitable Sports Gambling. See also the notion of "betting rules", eg A statistical development of fixed odds betting rules in soccer.
There is possibly some mileage to be had in getting to grips with R modeling using staking strategy models as an opening exercise, along with statistical graphical demonstrations of the same, but that is perhaps a little off topic for now…
To recap then, what I think I've learned is that we can test predictions against the benchmark of offered odds. The offered odds in themselves give us a ballpark estimate of what the (expert) bookmakers, as influenced by the betting/prediction market, expect the outcome of an event to be. Note that the odds are rigged to give summed probabilities over a range of events happening to be greater than 1, to build in a profit margin (does it have a proper name?) for the bookmaker. If we have a prediction model that appears to offer better odds on an event than the odds that are actually offered, and we believe in our prediction, we can run a value betting strategy on that basis and hopefully come out, over the long term, with a profit. The size of the profit is in part an indicator of how much more accurate our model is as a predictive model than the expert knowledge and prediction market basis that is used to set the bookie's odds.
PS Re: the bookie's profit, seems that this is called the overround or vigorish. The paper Forecasting sports tournaments by ratings of (prob)abilities: A comparison for the EURO 2008 makes clear the relationship between the bookies' cut and the odds:
One thing that immediately springs to mind is to look at what sort of overround applies to different bookmakers around different sorts of F1 bets, and whether this is related to the apparent forecast accuracy of the odds offered, at least in ranking terms? (See the comments for a couple of links to papers on forecast accuracy of sports betting odds.)
PPS FWIW, as and when I come across R libraries to access bookmaker APIs, I'll add them here:
– Betfair R package – access Betair API; another package (CRAN): Betfairly
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You might also be interested in "proper scoring rules" as a better way of evaluating probabilistic forecasts once you have the outcomes. Betting scores you against the bookie; proper scoring rules score you against the outcomes.
Example of proper scoring rules used to evaluate predictions from US election pundits: http://appliedrationality.org/2012/11/09/was-nate-silver-the-most-accurate-2012-election-pundit/
@Doug Yes, you're right of course… And I didn't mention confidence limits on predictions either (I wonder if the margin, or whatever the term is, that the bookies build in to get summed probabilities > 1 is a reflection of their confidence in a reliable way?)
This whole journey is going to be very much baby steps for me… and I'm not totally sure what sorts of things I'll find I need to cover to make sense of it all along the way (typical uncourse, eh?!)
Which is to say – all comments will be very much appreciated and could well guide what I look at and the way I wend my way through it all :-) -
There's an interesting model which i guess could be adapted to F1, in a paper titled "Probabilistic Modelling in Muliti-Competitor Games" by CJ Farmer. Might be worth a look.
Anyway, i'm enjoying your posts on F1 and am hoping to learn some R skills (complete novice atm). gl.
Thanks for that link… will check it out. Hope to get the first proper post in the series out over the weekend…:-)
All ideas welcome:-)
I've always called the bookmakers margin the 'overround' – i can't recall it being called anything else in my reading on gambling, except in America where they talk about the 'vigorish' (or 'vig') which i assume to be the same.
I would suggest the book Precision: Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Horse Racing by CX Wong.
I believe some of the statistical approaches Wong recommends would apply.
Thanks – will check it out…
A thought on how bookies set odds (nothing to do with R).
The odds offered by a bookmaker are only vaguely related to the probability of an outcome. They are strongly correlated with the payout of an outcome. Basically the bookmaker keeps track of how much he has to pay for outcome A and adjusts his odds accordingly. He has to a) be able to pay all the bettors and b) still make a profit.
The amount of money bet on an outcome is correlated (roughly) with the number of people betting on the outcome. The "smart money" might be on outcome A, but if the sentimental favourite is B then B will have the short odds.
My point is: if you're using the odds as a signal, expect a lot of noise. as well.
@daggles Yes, thanks for that correction. I was packing a lot of assumptions in to the claim, particularly that the crowd was likely to be as good as anyone at forecasting a result and that the bookies would in turn reflect this in their pricing. One thing I could add to the list of things to do might be to see how effectively the odds (or ranking of odds) appear to reflect outcomes. For example, "Sports Forecasting: A Comparison of the Forecast Accuracy of Prediction Markets, Betting Odds and Tipsters" [preprint: http://www.ecm.bwl.uni-muenchen.de/publikationen/pdf/sports_forec.pdf final: http://test2.marketing.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/fileadmin/Publikationen/Spann-Skiera-2008-Journal-of-Forecasting_01.pdf%5D, "Issues in Sports Forecasting" [ http://www.gwu.edu/~forcpgm/2009-002.pdf ], [ http://test2.marketing.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/fileadmin/Publikationen/Spann-Skiera-2008-Journal-of-Forecasting_01.pdf ]
F1 further complicates the scene by allowing team orders, which casual betters might not factor in to their bets? So for example, if form on a particular weekend suggested that driver A were to just beat driver B in the same team, but driver B was in a championship race, or maybe had a home race where personal points tallies were not an issue, then form might not be the best guide of who would be allowed to take the higher position…?
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Amy Winehouse Botches Concert, Cancels European Tour Dates (Video)
A backup singer took over lead vocals on songs she was struggling with, and boos from the Belgrade audience were widely reported. At one point, the BBC says Winehouse threw her mic to the floor, when she wasn't mumbling lyrics. On video, seen after the jump, she's seen resting on equipment and wandering the large stage.
The troubled singer, 27, was in and out of rehab recently, in advance of her tour. But now, her rep says Monday's gig in Istanbul and Wednesday's concert in Athens have been scrapped because "she cannot perform to the best of her ability" and feels "this is the right thing to do." Her tour will resume July 8 in Spain.
Tabloids in the U.K. reported last month that doctors treating Winehouse for her longtime addiction to alchohol are sounding the alarm, emphasizing the urgent need for her to sober up after years of substance abuse. "It's the last chance saloon for Amy," said a source. "Doctors have come down hard on her because of the severity of her situation. It's a harsh reality, but she had to hear it."
For now, Winehouse heads home to England on an abrupt hiatus. Two clips of her botched Belgrade performance can be seen here:
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- Sunday 19 JuneBy joooojHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I love her to pieces, but she is doing harm to herself and abusing our ears. Talent gone wasted. No pun intended.
- Monday 20 JuneBy Comrade XHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
She`s dead now and doesn`t even realize it.
- Sunday 19 JuneBy Lucille
Poor Amy. I feel she needs prayer not ridicule. I really liked her music and voice at one time. Seems like Adele picked up where she left off.
- Sunday 19 JuneBy djk2
What she needs is a LOT of tough love, about a year in a really good rehab center, and no more friends & family who are enablers.
- Sunday 19 JuneBy Amy
This is too sad to watch . A human being self destructing right before our eyes .
- Sunday 19 JuneBy mrpip
this is great it fits withe thend of humanity
- Sunday 19 June
Maybe she wants to die.Drug addiction is a slow or sometimes fast way to die.
- Sunday 19 JuneBy garyw82251Highest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
It's just a shame that we continue to showcase these kinds of behaviors as there are so many other artists out there that are just the opposite of this artist...what is seen in this type of behavior is beyond me...she diffinately has a bad problem and nothing has worked so far and that is the sad part or this story...but she does not warrant all this attention for her bad behaviors and habits...
- Sunday 19 JuneBy anne
You're absolutely right--time to start ignoring bad behavior rather than giving it so much attention that others try to emulate it. A drug abuser isn't worth glorifying even if she had any talent.
- Sunday 19 June
She sounds better drunk than Lady GaGa sounds sober.
- Sunday 19 JuneBy anne
Your user-name is so disgusting it should be reported.
- Sunday 19 JuneBy TrgdyAnn
REALLY sad 2 C her in this condition. Historically entertainers are considered the most dysfunctional people in the business. I just hope that someway,something(because noone but her can kick these demons),will get her back on track SOON and not a tour in a coffin!
- Sunday 19 JuneBy LisaHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
What a trainwreck.
- Sunday 19 JuneBy RavenprplHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I could not even finish watching this mess...She gets chance after chance & why????
- Sunday 19 JuneBy kathy
she was so trashed, she needs to be put away till shes clean, or else will will soon here of her death...so sad, shes ruining her life, as i see her now i have more talent in my little finger, if i were the concert goers id demand my money back....GET HELP , OR YOU WILL DIE AMY...
- Sunday 19 June
It is never pretty to watch a human being self-destruct before your eyes. But we see it over and over again with Amy Winehouse. She is obviously drunk, stoned or both here. You can barely understand what she's saying. And once she tossed the microphone off the stage, you can tell this performance had "disaster" written all over it. She has only made two albums so far. At the rate things are going, she may not produce a third album.
- Sunday 19 JuneBy madeline
She defines the word "Skank".
- Sunday 19 JuneBy joshskorn
I'm surprised she's even still alive. I remember rumors that were mentioning that she might not 'make it through the weekend'.
- Tuesday 21 JuneBy loufalce
Its very hard to feel sorry for a trainwreck like this. She had everything to live for, but blew it with the drugs. As they say, "she made her bed, now she must lie in it".This isn`t a human being,this is a real life zombie.
- Sunday 19 JuneBy homeexpertsHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Raaaauuuuuullllll. That wasn't nice. What has her religon got to do with her talent or addiction..I suppose we should send Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen and Carlos Santana away too!!!! Oh how silly of me..they aren't jewish are they?????? If your real name is Raul I suggest you take a reality check. If you are just an anti semite who trolls the boards looking for the J word to fuel your hate..I say go away..No one wants you here.
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Social.org Sells for $228,600 on NameJet
The auction for Social.org closed at a price of $228,600 on NameJet this afternoon. Bidding during the final minutes of the auction extended it more than three hours past its scheduled ending time. The winning bidder was "qgpfexzorg," and there were five active bidders above the $50,000 mark (three above $200,000).
Late last year, Social.com was sold for $2,600,000 in a deal co-brokered by Moniker and Marksmen. Fusible reported that SalesForce.com acquired Social.com, although I don't believe the company has publicly confirmed the acquisition.
Last week, I ran a contest on my blog to see who could guess the sale price of the domain name, and the person who guessed the closest would receive a $200 NameJet bidding credit from me. There were guesses that ranged from a low of $8,500 to a high of $1.2 million.
The person who guessed the closest number to the actual sale was Bruce Tedeschi, who guessed a sale price of $230,000, off by $1,400. Congratulations on making the best guess. I will be in touch with you soon to ensure that the bidding credit is delivered to the proper account.
Congratulations to the seller and to NameJet on this successful domain sale. It will be interesting to see who bought the domain name. I am a frequent NameJet bidder, and I did not recognize the winning bidder's user name, so perhaps it was created specifically for this auction.
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That's way over bid. It will be re-auctioned soon. Don't send $200 to the winner yet.
What happens if the buyer don't pay? Does it get auctioned again or go to second high bidder?
Was Poker.org the highest .org sale at $1m? http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/17/poker-org-sold-for-1-million-most-ever-for-org-domain/
SUcker buyer…opps…ignorant buyer–will regret for the rest of his/her life …impulse emotional buying…stupidity
dot com is king!!!
I remembered COPY.COM was sold at Namejet for around 100K – Didn't expect Social.org sold for 228K.
@Carlton F : I believe if buyer don't make payment in the next 3 days (not sure 3 days because 228K is a lot of money and need to do wire transfer), then the domain will available in the public auction.
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To those who think the guy who bought this is a sucker:
Have you thought if "Facebook" was built on a name such as this what that would have been like?
It would have been Treeeeeeeeeeeemendouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!!
Social.com and social.org sales are real proof of the growing peak and interest in social web commerce. The trend is likely to continue through the next decade. This gives me hope for sociobutton.com : sell it for 5% of social.org price or start a social web magazine inside.
I'd wager a bet that the buyer was the same company that bought social dot com.
Defensive strategy.
Wow seemed only a couple of days ago I saw it sitting at 7k man that thing took off!
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Title: | Magnetic and electrical properties of RCo(2)Mn (R = Ho, Er) compounds |
Author: | MAJI, B; SURESH, KG; NIGAM, AK |
Abstract: | The RCo(2)Mn (R = Ho and Er) alloys, crystallizing in the cubic MgCu(2)-type structure, are isostructural to RCo(2) compounds. The excess Mn occupies both the R and the Co atomic positions. Magnetic, electrical and heat capacity measurements have been done in these compounds. The Curie temperature is found to be 248 and 222 K for HoCo(2)Mn and ErCo(2)Mn, respectively, which is considerably higher than that of the corresponding RCo(2) compounds. Saturation magnetization values in these samples are less compared to that of the respective RCo(2) compounds. . |
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¶29] When he had settled in his princely seat and his chieftain's residence in Lifford (24th January, 1593), confronting his enemy Turloch Luineach O Néill, he proceeded to wreak his vengeance and his enmity on him by driving him from his principality and weakening him, in the hope that Aodh O Néill might be inaugurated in his place. The foresight which he used proved of advantage to him, for the chieftancy fell in the end to Aodh O Néill, and Turloch Luineach gave his consent and yielded to him as to the title that he should be styled O Néill. He was proclaimed after that and Turloch sent away the English who were with him, since he entered into agreement and friendship with O Domhnaill. In the month of May exactly, in the year of our Lord 1593, he did this. When O Domhnaill was at peace with him, the two Aodhs brought the province of Conor Mac Nessa under their friendly peaceful sway immediately, and they held hostages and pledges for its observance and maintenance faithfully at all times. When Aodh O Domhnaill saw that the whole province was obedient and secured to him, then he called to mind his own wrongs done by the English, and he reminded the Irish in the same way also of the extent of the wrongs done to them, and of the evils and injustices which they had wrought for a time to the descendants of Gaedhal Glas, son of Niul, robbing them of their inheritance singly and collectively, putting them in gaols and in captivity, executing them through cruelty and anger, and it was thus they would spend their time to the end of life, whenever they could get an opportunity or advantage of the Irish. And also he told them he had himself sent his messenger and a letter to Spain to ask the aid of an army to oppose the English, and that he had great hopes of arrival in a short time. This was the fact, for he had sent
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This is my dream home.. yep dream home. I would love to restore it. It is located in Greenbrier Co. about 3 hrs from where I live.
Thank you all for your support. You have always shown such kindness.
The new doc is now checking me for Chorea-Huntington's Disease and wants a cancer scan done.
Personally I believe she is wrong on both accounts. I have been told by 2 docs it is Essential Tremors.. then this new one walks in and looks at me and says you don't have ET you have Chorea. She never once touches me .. just ask questions and watches me..she wrote out meds for Chorea -HD , which I am not taking until I have lab work saying otherwise. Just don't see it happening.. or I want to keep my eyes closed one.. we are talking fatal.. no cure...and well I serve a God that is greater than that.. Doctor's aren't always right. She wants me to come back in 2 mo.. that isn't going to happen. I will have my results within the week because I will go get them. She didn't bother to tell me what Huntington's was. I looked it up and went into shock for about 8 hrs reading and watching until I was like wait none of this matches me or my symptoms... then I was ok... Fatal was a word she could of prepared me for... but oh well, I will know more hopefully by Wed when the labs come back. So will let you know more when I know more...
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You're so right about doctors. They just guess and then eliminate. Much like what they do to our vehicles. A little prayer sent to make you just fine. As for your picture, it is a lovely old house that needs a ton of work. Was probably something in it's day.
After reading about you, your picture went out of my mind and I had to have another look to remind me.
Wishing you all the luck and hope that one day you will get your dream house in this excellent image.
Bah...I really don't like the sound of that doc I'm glad the symptoms don't match Huntington's. Big *phew* there. Whatever it is, *fingers crossed* it's nothing major and that it can be sorted successfully.
Really great shot of your dream house you've got here, by the way, especially with those clouds whizzing off into the corner
Hi Dawn, this is a beautiful, atmospheric image....I can understand why you feel it is your dream home.
As you know, we have conversed elsewhere and I am pleased things are looking better for you.
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Carol x
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"We don't have a good metric to measure what is cyber hardened and what is not," Greene said at the Association of the U.S. Army's Winter Symposium here.
Army leaders have worked hard to try keep pace with the smartphones most soldiers already own. Officials have acknowledged their acquisition process is too slow.
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Afterschool programs are showing some gains in Indiana, but program availability is still a major concern in the state. Just 10 percent of K-12 youth in Indiana are in an afterschool program while 30 percent go home to an empty house after the school day ends. With greater awareness of the educational impact that afterschool programs are having on children in the state, hopefully more funding will come and more children will be able to enjoy the state's rich afterschool offerings.
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CAROLINA FOREST Bluffton rallied twice, first to force a second game, then to win 10-6 over Carolina Forest on Wednesday in a winner-take-all matchup to earn a place in the Class AAAA Lower State tournament.
The Panthers led 3-0 and 6-3 in the second game, but the Bobcats rallied both times, including a four-run burst in the fifth inning to seal to win.
With the game knotted at 6, the Bobcats' Lily Outen led off with a single, then scored on a Jordyn Parker single, and McKyla Houghlan drove a three-run homer over the centerfield fence to put the Panthers away for good.
"It's disappointing. That's really the only word," Panthers coach Meagan Johnson said.
The Panthers (24-4), the defending Lower State champs, had already beaten the Bobcats and North Augusta in the double-elimination District VI tournament and needed just one win to advance again.
Carolina Forest pitcher Emily Merriam reached on an error to open the top of the second inning and pinch-runner Leah Belac scored on a swinging bunt from Cheyenne McKenna, Emily Best's RBI single scored Natalie Hardwick and McKenna scored on Angelina Santoro's RBI double to give the Panthers a 3-0 edge in the top of the second.
Bluffton came right back, however, with three runs in the bottom half of the inning, keyed by a two-run single by Morgonne Parker.
Carolina Forest added another run in the third when Kyleigha McKenna hit a one-out single, took second and third on an error in center field and scored on an error by Bobcats' catcher Whitney Morrell, and stretched the led to 6-3 in the fourth when Best and Sara Sweatt led off with back-to-back singles, then scored on singles from Monica Mullis and McKenna.
Bluffton's Kim Kirby hit a two-RBI single in the bottom of the inning and scored on a single from Morrell as the Bobcats tied the game at 6.
Carolina Forest led early in the first game, going up 1-0 when Sara Sweatt, a 2012 All-State selection, was walked by Bluffton pitcher Courtney Smith and scored on a Mullis single.
Bluffton answered in the third with a two-run single by Houghlan, to go up 2-1, then extended the lead to 4-1 in the fifth RBI singles from Houghlan and Kirby.
Carolina Forest appeared to have tied the game in the fifth. Sweatt's sac hit scored Hardwick, and Santoro ripped the ball sharply down the leftfield line, which would have driven in the tying runs, but the home plate umpire ruled the ball foul.
"That's the way the game goes," Johnson said. "That's why this is such a great game. It's doesn't always go your way, but you've still got to find a way to come back and to score. That's just the way it goes."
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Most of us arrive in a national park by car, truck, or perhaps train, and then spend our visit either walking or driving around, stopping at scenic overlooks, exploring history, or searching for wildlife. One mode of transportation not to be overlooked, though, is watercraft. Here are five incredible national park excursions by boat that are worthy of your consideration.
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Regulations will be developed for gathering of "wild, renewable resources" on national park lands in Alaska where it is allowed.
NPS Academy, Alternative Spring Break Bringing Youth To National Parks
Spring break is commencing at colleges around the country, and for more than 200 students that means a trip not to the beach, but to a national park to participate either in the National Park Service Academy or an "Alternative Spring Break" program in parks.
Researchers At Kenai Fjords National Park Mapping Networks of Glacier Drains
Research at Kenai Fjords National Park this summer should provide a better understanding of how glaciers melt, move, and drain away their meltwater.
Summer Special: Wildflowers in the National Parks
Summer brings a wealth of flowers to those parks that have enjoyed spring flowers like Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It also brings flowers to Rocky Mountain National Park and the parks in Alaska where the snow is just melting.
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Kenai Fjords National Park, one of Alaska's few road-accessible national parks, is a wonderland of mountains, glaciers, and wildlife. Here are some numbers that tell the story.
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If you need some inspiration for lending a hand on National Public Lands Day later this month, look no further than Gregory Kolenda and the work he accomplished at Kenai Fjords National Park.
Some Out of the Ordinary National Park Trips To Consider
For most, a national park vacation entails booking a room in a lodge or reserving a spot in a campground, arriving at the park and checking in, and then spending a number of days hiking, paddling, or traveling the park to view various sites, whether they focus on waterfalls, geysers, deep forests, museums, or cultural focal points. Here are some alternatives to that approach, some pricey, some not so.
Visiting Alaska National Parks – By Train
It's not too soon to start dreaming about and planning for next summer's trip to Alaska, and the Alaska Railroad offers an appealing means of travel to a pair of outstanding parks: Denali National Park and Kenai Fjords National Park.
New Lodge Gives You an Opportunity to Better Know Kenai Fjords National Park
For more than a few of us, visiting many of our national parks can only be done vicariously -- most often while we're firmly seated in our most comfortable armchair, at that. So many far off places -- whether you're in Florida wondering about Denali or Glacier Bay national parks in Alaska, or in Alaska wondering about the Everglades or maybe Biscayne national parks in Florida -- can only be visited through words, videos, or audio.
Second Round of National Park Service "Centennial Projects" Produces $27 Million Worth of Improvements
Rehabilitation projects, invasive species eradication and biodiversity research were among the $27 million worth of Centennial Initiative projects for the National Park System announced Tuesday by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and NPS Director Mary Bomar.
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National Accessibility Achievement Awards Recognize Accomplishment in an Area of Vital Concern to the National Park Service
The National Park Service began making National Accessibility Achievement Awards in 1999 to recognize outstanding accomplishments in architectural design, program design, and sustained efforts to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities. For the FY 2008 awards round, a five-member panel of experts will vet 14 nominations in four categories.
National Park Quiz 15: Ring of Fire
This week's quiz tests your knowledge of geologic features and processes in the national parks that lie within the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that rings the Pacific Basin. Answers are at the end. If we catch you peeking, we'll make you write "convergent boundary" 100 times on the whiteboard.
Twenty-seven Years Ago, Eight National Parks Came to Be
Never before have, and probably never again will, so many national parks come into existence on the same date. Given birth by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act were Denali, Gates of Arctic, Glacier Bay, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark and Wrangell-St. Elias national parks.
Marketing Alaska's National Parks; Why Not All National Parks?
I hate jumping to conclusions. But that apparently is exactly what I did when I surmised that the proposed $1.5 million centennial project involving the Alaska Travel Industry Association would benefit the cruise-ship industry more than the parks.