Strategies in Curling Playoffs: Aggression and Shootouts
In curling, teams often adopt an aggressive shootout strategy to steal points and significantly alter the game's outcome. - Edit
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Compared to what you normally would see down by one with.
But I, but for the team without, I think you're definitely going to see more aggression playing for the steal.
Yeah.
Because you can still get force playing hard for the steal, but if it gets to the shootout, then it's just 50/50 either way, one draw.
So there's not a lot of fear in playing aggressive for the steal.
Yeah, no doubt.
And I think the only thing you can be sure that it materially will change with regard to how these ends play out is when it gets to the final stone.
In standard curling, if you have an angle run that you feel like you have a 25%, 30% chance of making to get two, as opposed to going to the extra end where you maybe have a 10% chance of winning the steal- Yeah you're playing that angle run.
Yeah.
But now, if you have a simple shot for one- Take a chance at the steal to go to the shootout, is it still worth the T to play that angle?
I don't think so.
No.
I think it's gonna be take the one and go to the shootout.
No, and we've seen that quite a few times the past few events.
Even teams trying to claw their way back.
So one game finishing up beside us.
It was Team Retornaz over Team Kleider.
That'll put the reigning Italian Olympic team into the win column here, picking up three points here in draw number two.
Nice tap from Team Tiranzoni.
They'll lie two.
Not a bad little setup for them early on.
Yeah, you could see by the way they swept that they really wanted to make sure they were sitting two after that shot, move that rock far enough.
Just trying to put themselves in position to get-
