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On May 24 2010 10:15 Housemd wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2010 10:05 seppolevne wrote:
Grand Slams in baseball, tennis and golf (though the latter two are different).
Hat trick in hockey, soccer.
Triple-double in basketball.
Century in cricket.
Perfect games of pool, darts, etc.
Of those, hat tricks in hockey and triple-doubles are probably the most common. Grand slams in tennis and golf are mad hard. Triple-double in basketball is very common, Lebron, Kobe, D-Wade have them once in like 5 games, sometimes more. Century in cricket is pretty common, around 30% of games have them. Double-century isnt Hat tricks are arguable but most commonly are not seen, around %10? And a grand slam in baseball, thats just common one in every 3-4 games?
Yeah I don't watch cricket, baseball or basketball so I had no idea really how often they occur.
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hitting for the cycle is getting a single, double, triple, and home run in a single game, regardless of the order. If they are hit in order, it's called a natural cycle, and is even rarer. Cycle has happened under 300 times in MLB history, so I think it qualifies as pretty rare
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On May 24 2010 10:15 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2010 10:14 mmp wrote:I once let this guy play through, it's a par 3 and he plants it decimeters from the hole. I don't think it's that uncommon, especially if you make a career out of sports. Tiger Woods in action: + Show Spoiler + Well yeah even I have landed it to nearly a tap in on a par 3 hehe... but getting it in the hole is a lot harder! BTW while I was researching the topic of this blog a bit I watched that same video haha.
Yeah and everyone gets 1 lucky shot and can brag, but the point is that anyone who plays a LOT is going to consistently get closer and closer to perfection. If you make every shot that accurately then you're going to get in a hole in one far more frequently than "once in a lifetime."
I feel like with baseball there are too many other players competing for perfect play, they would almost have to make an error for some of these rare plays to occur.
Hmmm, pool has a game-winning break. I don't mean a scratch for the opponent, but 9 Ball for example this happens now and then.
In Magic: The Gathering, winning on a draw might have been possible in some Vintage decks, but I think they've restricted most of the broken cards.
Football doesn't really have anything rare I can think of besides safeties (an act of incompetence by the offense) and any field goal from ~50yards is impressive and seldom risked.
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United States24753 Posts
On May 24 2010 10:29 mmp wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2010 10:15 micronesia wrote:On May 24 2010 10:14 mmp wrote:I once let this guy play through, it's a par 3 and he plants it decimeters from the hole. I don't think it's that uncommon, especially if you make a career out of sports. Tiger Woods in action: + Show Spoiler + Well yeah even I have landed it to nearly a tap in on a par 3 hehe... but getting it in the hole is a lot harder! BTW while I was researching the topic of this blog a bit I watched that same video haha. Yeah and everyone gets 1 lucky shot and can brag, but the point is that anyone who plays a LOT is going to consistently get closer and closer to perfection. If you make every shot that accurately then you're going to get in a hole in one far more frequently than "once in a lifetime."
Well even pros don't get that many right? What is the record number of holes in one?
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On May 24 2010 10:29 mmp wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2010 10:15 micronesia wrote:On May 24 2010 10:14 mmp wrote:I once let this guy play through, it's a par 3 and he plants it decimeters from the hole. I don't think it's that uncommon, especially if you make a career out of sports. Tiger Woods in action: + Show Spoiler + Football doesn't really have anything rare I can think of besides safeties (an act of incompetence by the offense) and any field goal from ~50yards is impressive and seldom risked.
Kickoff return for a touchdown is pretty rare. Catching, running, and throwing a touchdown all in one game has happened once or twice is I am not mistaken.
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FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
In tennis, yes there are the Grand Slams--but we are talking about somebody's performance in one individual game, no?
There is something called the golden set, and that extends to the golden match, and that's a tennis term that describes the incident where one player wins 48 (or 96, or 144) consecutive points, meaning that they win one, two, or three sets in a match without dropping a single point to their opponent.
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On May 24 2010 10:12 Wohmfg wrote:
A perfect hat trick in football where 3 goals are scored by one player in one game using the left foot, the right foot and the head.
I'm pretty sure a hat trick is just scoring 3 goals, doesn't matter what body part you use.
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On May 24 2010 10:36 flamewheel91 wrote:
In tennis, yes there are the Grand Slams--but we are talking about somebody's performance in one individual game, no?
There is something called the golden set, and that extends to the golden match, and that's a tennis term that describes the incident where one player wins 48 (or 96, or 144) consecutive points, meaning that they win one, two, or three sets in a match without dropping a single point to their opponent.
has a golden match ever happened in professional competition?
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In hockey there's something called like a Howe hat trick where you score a goal, get an assist, and win a fight in one game. Pretty sure it's not like an official statistic but rather something that Howe did a few times.
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FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
On May 24 2010 11:04 [NyC]HoBbes wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2010 10:36 flamewheel91 wrote:
In tennis, yes there are the Grand Slams--but we are talking about somebody's performance in one individual game, no?
There is something called the golden set, and that extends to the golden match, and that's a tennis term that describes the incident where one player wins 48 (or 96, or 144) consecutive points, meaning that they win one, two, or three sets in a match without dropping a single point to their opponent. has a golden match ever happened in professional competition?
Whoops, I was being dumb. It's 24, 48, 72 points first off. For some reason I translated "win a match" into "win a set."
I think there's been a golden set, and probably a golden match. I remembered reading something in the USTA magazine about it, but it's a distant memory.
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Osaka27158 Posts
In baseball, from common to uncommon to miracle...
- A grand slam is common, not that special.
- An inside the park homerun generally happens when an outfielder dives / jumps for the ball, misses, and the ball bounces away from the secondary fielder. It happens a few times a season.
- A cycle in baseball (single, double, triple, homerun) always makes the news. It does not have to be in order. It happens a handful of times per season.
- The unassisted triple play is usually to a middle infielder who catches a line drive, steps on the bag closest to him for the second out, and tags out the third man who was running on a hit and run. Very rare.
- 20 strikeouts in a 9-inning game has happened very few times, and is an amazing accomplishment. Only Kerry Wood and Roger Clemens have done it. Randy Johnson also struck out 20 in 9 innings, but the game lasted 11 so it is not in the same category.
- Batting .400 over an entire season is about as close to perfect as you can get in a sport defined by failure. Ted Williams batted over .400 in 1941, the last player to do so. It is a great story:
In 1941, he entered the last day of the season with a batting average of .39955. This would have been rounded up to .400, making him the first man to hit .400 since Bill Terry in 1930. Manager Joe Cronin left the decision whether to play up to him. Williams opted to play in both games of the day's doubleheader and risk falling short, explaining that "if I can't hit .400 all the way, I don't deserve it." He singled in his first at-bat, raising his average to .401, and followed it with a home run and two more hits in the first game. Williams went 2 for 3 in the second game, for a total of 6 hits in his last 8 at-bats, for a final average of .406. No player has hit .400 in a season since Williams. (Williams also hit .407 in 1953 (just 37 games), and in a six-game cameo in 1952.)
- Now for miracle although it wasn't a single game, but more like a perfect season, Joe Dimaggio had a 56-game hitting streak. It is considered one of the "unbreakable" records in sport (along with Gretzky's 50 goals in 39 games).
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Triple doubles can use blocked shots (or for the cynical, turnovers) as one of the categories. However, a lot of the listed accomplishments are luck based. Quite a few players, if they felt selfish enough to hog the ball, could achieve a triple double with the cooperation of their team.
Averaging 50-40-90 maybe, although that's sort of like batting .400
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i've witnessed a hole in one on a par 3. my dad's friend got it when four of us were golfing. we told the green keeper and he got a free prize
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Apparently, way back in the 1950s or something, before football (American football) kept sacks as a stat, one guy had 18 sacks in a single game.
Also, in 8-ball pool, I suppose if you hit the ball hard enough you can get all 15 balls to sink in. Also, I think if you get the 8-ball in on the the break you win.
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In 9-ball pool, you can run the table by sinking all the balls. This is fairly common at a high level though.
In snooker, one can score a "century break", by earning more than 100 points without missing a shot. This is rare, but not exceedingly rare (many professionals have accomplished it more than 100 times in their careers, a "century of centuries")
A much rarer snooker achievement is the "maximum break", in which a player amasses 147 points without missing a shot, the most possible under normal circumstances. This has occurred 70 times in competition. (if the opponent has fouled, more may be scored, this is extremely rare, having occurred only 8 times.)
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On May 24 2010 10:19 Wohmfg wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2010 10:13 micronesia wrote:On May 24 2010 10:12 Wohmfg wrote:
A perfect hat trick in football where 3 goals are scored by one player in one game using the left foot, the right foot and the head. How often does this happen? Do players aim for this or does it just coincidentally happen sometimes? It just coincidentally happens sometimes, I'm sure the players would be more concerned with getting the ball in the back of the net whichever way they can rather than scoring a certain way. :D It's very rare.
I've never heard of this, are you sure it exists outside the circle of friends that you talk to? A hat trick was always the same, it's 3 goals in 1 game by the same player, no matter how he scored those.
edit: it's weird, apparently you can read about "perfect hat trick" online, yet I've never ever heard of it, not one commentator mentioned it, not one newspaper wrote about it. There's also a reference for the "flawless hat trick" (which is 3 goals in 1 period uninterrupted by other players), was mentioned in some newspaper article. But there's no reference for "perfect hat trick". Really strange, this could be something that only exists in Britain.
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On May 24 2010 15:20 condoriano wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2010 10:19 Wohmfg wrote:On May 24 2010 10:13 micronesia wrote:On May 24 2010 10:12 Wohmfg wrote:
A perfect hat trick in football where 3 goals are scored by one player in one game using the left foot, the right foot and the head. How often does this happen? Do players aim for this or does it just coincidentally happen sometimes? It just coincidentally happens sometimes, I'm sure the players would be more concerned with getting the ball in the back of the net whichever way they can rather than scoring a certain way. :D It's very rare. I've never heard of this, are you sure it exists outside the circle of friends that you talk to? A hat trick was always the same, it's 3 goals in 1 game by the same player, no matter how he scored those. edit: it's weird, apparently you can read about "perfect hat trick" online, yet I've never ever heard of it, not one commentator mentioned it, not one newspaper wrote about it. There's also a reference for the "flawless hat trick" (which is 3 goals in 1 period uninterrupted by other players), was mentioned in some newspaper article. But there's no reference for "perfect hat trick". Really strange, this could be something that only exists in Britain.
The only time I ever heard about it was on some television program about the history of the world cup, haha. I've never even heard my friends talk about it. I guess it's just so rare that it's never talked about, I'm sure if it happened in a game then a commentator would mention it?
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I play a lot of golf and have only seen 2 hole in ones in person. One was with a 25 mph crosswind and was crazy to see it go in. The other was in a tournament into a 205 yard hole up hill into a blind green. Walked up to the green and didn't see the ball till he looked in the cup. Sadly both players didn't buy any drinks cuz they cheap. If I make a hole in one everyone will get a drink even it if costs me a few hundred dollars.
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hat trick is dick in hockey. bit harder in soccer, but not all that rare.
now 50 goals in 50 games in hockey, big difference. that's baller status right there. 200pt season is probably something that isnt happening again any time soon, even with all new offensive friendly rules. and historic comeback—the flyers came back from a 3-0 deficit in a 7 game series to win. That's the fourth time in all of major NA professional sports
Winning the Cup itself is still an insane accomplishment. There's a ton of great players that never done it. Amazingly grueling season and all sorts of variables fuck it for a lot of people. Ray Borque went liek 20 years before winning it in his final year. Marian Hossa just made the finals for the third year in a row, but doesnt have a Ring yet
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