We have a foosball table at work in the gaming room, it is one of the attraction during lunch hour and after five.\u00a0 There is a crowd of keen foosball player come and play everyday.\u00a0 Technically speaking, foosball is a team sport.\u00a0 Each side has two players, one take care of the defense and the other take care of offense.\u00a0 In a foosball tournament, since the partner of a team is fixed, it is easy to tell who is stronger and who is weaker.\u00a0 However at work, people come and go to the gaming room.\u00a0 There are no fix teams, we just pair up with whoever in waiting in the room.\u00a0 The out come of the game depends not only on how good you are, but also on who you happen to pair up with.\u00a0 Now, determining the rank of each player becomes a bit tricky.\u00a0 Today, finally I came up with a way to rank how the player relative to each other.\u00a0 I named it the Ivy foosball scale (IFS).\u00a0\u00a0 Ivy is the only female foosball player among the usual gang and probably the least skillful one.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, although she is not as strong as the others, but she is considerably much better anyone else not a usual foosball player.\u00a0 We can measure the strength of other players in relative term to Ivy.\u00a0 The method to use is pairing up the subject with Ivy as a team.\u00a0 The strength of the subject is then measured by the number of goals he can scored playing against the others.\u00a0 The scale is from 0 to 10.\u00a0 It is zero if the subject score nothing, it is ten if the other team score nothing.\u00a0 It is quite an though up hill battle, so most of us taking the challenge lose most of the time.\u00a0 If we are fortunate enough to win the game, it would always be a close call of 4-4 shot out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"