What better way to spend this quarantine than looking at pong statistics? Today, I am going to return again to the idea of "Wins Above Replacement" (WAR) for pong. You may recall a couple of years ago we touched on this topic, but calculating WAR on the level of the team. You can read the two installments on team WAR here:
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In late August I hosted a Pong tournament in which 5 different teams competed for glory. This post recaps and provides a breakdown of those results. So that's the best place to start.
The Results
Congrats to the Bethlehem Boys - Nog and BSG - for the chip!
These results being the case, the misleading 
Latest episode of the Pong Pod, where Ezra, Buttons, Nog and I break down the Pong Merit Badge concept Nog created, and discuss our final thoughts before next week's Summer Slam II.
Please enjoy responsibly.
Hey y'all,
Latest episode of the pong pod below, where Buttons and I go through each entrant in the upcoming Summer Slam II pong tournament and break down that team's chances:
We played four "official" (i.e., stat-tracking-worthy) games on the Friday of Summer Slam, outside the tourney matches. The fourth was an all-time classic - more on that one to come.
In the meantime, the other three produced some fun moments. Check em out:
ITB. 
I hosted a pong tournament, monikered Summer Slam, in June. If you don't already know what pong is and want to catch up, good luck!. You're behind by, ballpark, 20 blogs and podcasts.
For everyone else: Let's get started.
Format & Outcome
Six teams entered, competing round-robin to qualify for a single-elimination 
On this latest episode of the Pong Pod, my friend Charlie - another future Kappa-in-law! - discuss the culture of Dartmouth College, Pong's Mecca, and what key pong abilities too often go underrated.
In the fifth installment of the Pong Pod, Ezra, Bullets and I discuss how one can improve his/her odds of winning at pong - tackling that topic specifically from the angle of what we feel proper mechanics and training regimes might look like.
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Also of note is the new paddle Bullets designed, which we referenced -
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