The Mathematics of the Infinite & OOTP

[Honorable_Pawn]

In a universe of infinite size and infinite limitations we could conclude that there is only one possibility...that life on Earth is the only life in the universe. But how likely is that? Let's see...There is a (1/infinity) chance that there are no other possibilities.

That's a pretty small number. Too small for a dummy like me to comprehend.

On the other hand, there is ((infinity-1)/Infinity) chance that any other single possibility is actual.

Just remember this the next time you fire up OOTP. There is a fairly high degree of possibility that the league that you simulate is actually happening exactly as you play out your league.

You are not watching a spreadsheet unfold after all. You are watching a real league in a real universe unfold right before your very eyes.

It is more likely real than less likely real.

Happy gaming.

[prisonerno6]

[jaysdailydose]

So, it's 4:20 somewhere?

In a parallel universe, but 4:20 all the same? Shibby!

Great post.

[Padreman]

What the?

[Padreman]

So my baseball universe is a universe at its own? I
Wonder if any of players in OOTP game play OOTP themselves and creat get another universe. A universe within a universe

[brewdog]

It could be a bubble universe.

[MarkInCincy]

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

In a universe of infinite size and infinite limitations we could conclude that there is only one possibility...that life on Earth is the only life in the universe. But how likely is that? Let's see...There is a (1/infinity) chance that there are no other possibilities.

That's a pretty small number. Too small for a dummy like me to comprehend.

On the other hand, there is ((infinity-1)/Infinity) chance that any other single possibility is actual.

Just remember this the next time you fire up OOTP. There is a fairly high degree of possibility that the league that you simulate is actually happening exactly as you play out your league.

You are not watching a spreadsheet unfold after all. You are watching a real league in a real universe unfold right before your very eyes.

It is more likely real than less likely real.

Happy gaming.

IIRC this was a feature intoduced in 6.51

[OBSL Commish]

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

In a universe of infinite size and infinite limitations we could conclude that there is only one possibility...that life on Earth is the only life in the universe. But how likely is that? Let's see...There is a (1/infinity) chance that there are no other possibilities.

That's a pretty small number. Too small for a dummy like me to comprehend.

On the other hand, there is ((infinity-1)/Infinity) chance that any other single possibility is actual.

Just remember this the next time you fire up OOTP. There is a fairly high degree of possibility that the league that you simulate is actually happening exactly as you play out your league.

You are not watching a spreadsheet unfold after all. You are watching a real league in a real universe unfold right before your very eyes.

It is more likely real than less likely real.

Happy gaming.

It's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey. . .stuff.

[Cinnamon J. Scudworth]

OOTP is an absurd expression of romantic hope.

Originally Posted by Michael Crichton in Sphere

"What do you think about all this, Harry?" Norman said, dropping into a chair next to him.

"I think it's perfectly clear," Harry said, "that it is a waste of time."

"This fin they've found underwater?"

"I don't know what it is, but I know what it isn't. It isn't a spacecraft from another civilization."

Ted, standing nearby, turned away in annoyance. Harry and Ted had evidently had this same conversation already. "How do you know?" Norman asked.

"A simple calculation," Harry said, with a dismissing wave of his hand. "Trivial, really. You know the Drake equation?"

Norman did. It was one of the famous proposals in the literature on extraterrestrial life. But he said, "Refresh me."

Harry sighed irritably, pulled out a sheet of paper. "It's a probability equation." He wrote:



"What it means," Harry Adams said, "is that the probability that intelligent life will evolve in any star system is a function of the probability that the star will have planets, the number of habitable planets, the probability that simple life will evolve on a habitable planet, the probability that intelligent life will evolve from simple life, and the probability that intelligent life will attempt interstellar communication within five billion years. That's all the equation says."

"Uh-huh," Norman said.

"But the point is that we have no facts," Harry said. "We must guess at every single one of these probabilities. And it's quite easy to guess one way, as Ted does, and conclude there are probably thousands of intelligent civilizations. It's equally easy to guess, as I do, that there is probably only one civilization. Ours." He pushed the paper away. "And in that case, whatever is down there is not from an alien civilization. So we're all wasting our time here."

"Then what is down there?" Norman said again.

"It is an absurd expression of romantic hope," Adams said, pushing his glasses up on his nose.

[Honorable_Pawn]

Originally Posted by OBSL Commish

It's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey. . .stuff.

You didn't just go there, did you? You pulled out the wibbly-wobbly. I hadn't even considered that possibility.

[OBSL Commish]

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

You didn't just go there, did you? You pulled out the wibbly-wobbly. I hadn't even considered that possibility.

LOL! Just think of OOTP as the baseball equivalent of a TARDIS.

[Honorable_Pawn]

:d

[msupoke]

[NoOne]

i guess i'll take all the fun out of this thread.

if the multiverse hypothesis is true, your simulation merely resembles another reality. you are not actually pulling the strings or causing anything to happen. if every possiblity is realized by an infinite number of universes, then no matter how you play your game, it will resemble at least one other universe exactly.

chronologically it may or may not coincide, but it will happen or it has happened in a different universe.

in laymans terms you can call it a theory, but it is far from one. a theory is supposed to be a well-proven hypothesis - nearly a law.

[msupoke]

Originally Posted by NoOne

i guess i'll take all the fun out of this thread.

if the multiverse hypothesis is true, your simulation merely resembles another reality. you are not actually pulling the strings or causing anything to happen. if every possiblity is realized by an infinite number of universes, then no matter how you play your game, it will resemble at least one other universe exactly.

chronologically it may or may not coincide, but it will happen or it has happened in a different universe.

in laymans terms you can call it a theory, but it is far from one. a theory is supposed to be a well-proven hypothesis - nearly a law.

In my universe, I made you type this.

[jlking]

My theory is that even we don't exist, and we are only part of Markus Heinsohn's glass bead game, ala Hermann Hesse's Magister Ludi.

[Honorable_Pawn]

Originally Posted by msupoke

In my universe, I made you type this.

[phenom]

[Kent814]

What if the current day MLB is just another OOTP fictional game in another universe. If it is, Id like to tell that alien to go into commisioner mode and trade Mike Trout and Kershaw to the Padres.