WINNER TAKES ALL. Betsy's Page notes that the New York Yankees scored more runs than the Florida Marlins, but lost the World Series anyway. (And no Florida Supreme Court attempted to rewrite the ground rules after game 2.) She links to a colleague who is attempting, perhaps too earnestly, to draw parallels between the Bowl Championship Series and the primaries. Perhaps the method will work to determine which of the candidates gets the most buzz based on the outcome of the previous week's primaries. There is a parallel between the views of pundits, and the logic of a rating system in which a team with a win over the current #10 and the current #12 and a near-tie with the current #6 fails to crack the top 15 while the #12 it defeats falls to about #25. (Time does not permit an analysis of the weighting of the computer power indicators that figure in calculating the rankings, although there is an interesting mathematics problem in there.)