[ColoradoTree]

Ha!  I guess I knew that from the Olympics (I love the living heck out of the Olympics).  What I meant was, I have no idea about the ins and outs of rowing, how and why certain teams do well, how the championships are scored exactly, and how a team is good other than, well, physical strength.  I can pick apart certain sports that I know better, but my rowing analysis would be limited to, "huh, that team went really fast; they must be good." 

I'm curious whether this sport is more like college golf (where the #8 team could absolutely beat the #1 team in match play on a good day) or college tennis (where #8 beating #1 is far less likely, unless we've got a Stanford-level underseeding situation going on). 

[ColoradoTree]

Ha!  I guess I knew that from the Olympics (I love the living heck out of the Olympics).  What I meant was, I have no idea about the ins and outs of rowing, how and why certain teams do well, how the championships are scored exactly, and how a team is good other than, well, physical strength.  I can pick apart certain sports that I know better, but my rowing analysis would be limited to, "huh, that team went really fast; they must be good." 

I'm curious whether this sport is more like college golf (where the #8 team could absolutely beat the #1 team in match play on a good day) or college tennis (where #8 beating #1 is far less likely, unless we've got a Stanford-level underseeding situation going on).