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Pound for pound, The Best Band in the Nation Billy Joe Fudge does the math, proving his point about the Adair Co. High School Marching Band By Billy Joe Fudge Retired Kentucky District Forester Well, well, well, here we go again. Another marching band season and the Adair County Band is out there challenging the big boys on a very competitive national stage. In a poem I wrote several years ago I opined in one line, rhyme intended, that "Adair might be, could be - The best band in the nation". Hey I just want you to know that I ain't (am not) backing down from that statement one little, smallish, tiny, minute, fraction of a smidgeon. Multiple redundancy intended. Have you ever heard the phrase used in boxing circles, "pound for pound the best boxer in the world"? Of course that is a way of saying that if a certain little welterweight (147 lb.) boxer was as big as a certain heavyweight (200 lb.) boxer he would kick some serious - well I think you get the drift. The same reasoning applies to this big band, little band competing in the same ring - uh - er - I mean, field. Last weekend Adair County, the welterweight, roughly 100 members strong came in second to a band from Indiana, the heavyweight, roughly 200 members strong. Adair County scored a little over 77 and Goliath scored a little over 82. So if you give both bands say uh, 70 points for showing up that would leave 7 for us and 12 for them for the performance score. Hey, when you divide 7 by 100 you get .07 points per band member for Adair "Welterweight" County and divide 12 by 200 you get .06 points per band member for Indiana's "Heavyweight" Hoosier band. That means that if we were 200 members strong our score would have been 200 times .07 = 14 + 70 show up points = 84. Therefore using this "fairness scoring curve" Adair County would have won by 2 points. Consequently and assuredly, pound for pound, "Adair might be, could be, The best band in the nation"! This story was posted on 2010-09-30 03:59:25
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