Quidditch, Number of Games, & Who Attends

[xyrael_ucla <snorth@ucla.edu>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" 
<bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> I realize that there is only just so much story time that JKR can
> squeeze between the covers of a book. A recent post made me start
> thinking about how many points Quidditch adds to the house total. 
That
> in turn started me thinking about how many games would be played in 
a
> season.
> 
> So how many games are played in a season? I should know the
> mathimatical formula for this, but I don't, so I sketched it out 
with
> a pen and paper. If all teams play an equal number of games, then
> there would be a total of 6 games which would allow every house to
> play every other house once.

I always thought that this was the case; each team plays 3 matches, 
for a total of 3! (3 factorial = 3*2*1) = 6.  Like someone already 
mentioned, if all six matches were given time in the pages, it would 
add unnecessarily to the length of the books.  (admittedly, *I* 
wouldn't mind reading about them.)

Someone really needs to invent small personal transportation devices 
modeled like brooms, and balls that fly of their own will, so I can 
start playing quidditch.

-Scott
(who just couldn't resist pointing out the math, sorry ;)