Originally Posted by redietz View Post
That's my point.

Technically, and this goes into the use of tenses when it comes to gambling as was discussed during the late Alan Mendelson's contribution to the classic dice-under-a-cup problem, saying "the EV was" refers to the advocate's estimation of "the EV" in past tense at the point in time in the past the advocate was doing the estimation. It's not mathematically appropriate, but it's linguistically and logically appropriate. In other words, it's subjective and references the advocate making the statement, which most people would consider inappropriate for a math term. But linguistically and logically, it's fine. If somebody wants to reference themselves, which I assume is what you're doing when you make an estimation outside of random events based on your personal opinion, then you say, "The EV was." That frames you as the person who made the estimation, with subjectivity baked in. You are taking ownership of your opinion. It's not a math term at that point; it's an opinion term.

I thought this was obvious. That's why I kept saying you should swap it out for "my opinion is" or "my opinion of the EV was."

Garnabby, you want to explain this? I know I was unfamiliar with the language spelled out regarding tenses in the dice-under-a-cup problem. I wasn't savvy regarding the use of language for that topic.
Wow greatest post of bullshit you have ever made.

It seems you still don't get my point. You're just trying to sound smart but too dumb to know how bad you failed. What nutty shit.

I'm not going to repeat what every pro bettor knows but after the event occurs you still don't know what the EV was. You know what the value is.

I'm betting no sane person will understand or agree with whatever the point is you're trying to make. Talk about word salad. Holy fuck.