Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Briefly

With family from away due in a few hours and a lot of work left to get ready, just a quick post today with numbers updated to include this fall's records.

Records In Ivy League Play Since 1956


W

L

T

Pct

Harvard 

291

169

9

.630

Dartmouth 

278

182

9

.602

Yale

273

188

8

.591

Princeton 

259

205

5

.558

Penn 

251

214

4

.539

Cornell 

194

270

5

.419

Brown 

190

272

7

.413

Columbia

114

350

5

.248


(For the uninitiated, the Ivy League was formalized and round-robin play began in 1956.)

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EXTRA POINT
Mrs. BGA and I went shopping a couple of days before Christmas and when her small purchase was $4.25 she handed the clerk a $20 bill and an extra quarter to eliminate the need for any coins in change. The cleark stood there confused, said something unintelligible about the register and then called on the loudspeaker for his manager.

When the clerk explained the issue to her, we expected the manager to clear his entry in the register for bookkeeping purposes and let him finish the transaction. Instead she got out her phone to punch in numbers to find out that we needed to get an even $16 in change.

I worry what's going to happen to some people when their GPS stops working.