For non-Americans: full-court press and half-court 3-point attempts, shots on goal from far outside the penalty area, attacking despite being a player down due to a penalty… All variants of the Hail Mary play.
Yeah, sorry about the America-centric assumptions here. To clarify a little bit, a Hail Mary is just the most extreme form of the more general aggressive strategy I’m trying to describe. Ie. the general strategy is one where the chances of an attempt working are low, but the benefits if it does work are high. With a Hail Mary in American football, the “probability of success” dial is turned all the way down, and the “benefits of success” dial is turned all the way up, basically. But I’m not advocating for that specifically here. I’m just advocating for the more general class of strategies that are high-risk, high-reward, when you happen to find yourself in a situation that justifies it.
Yeah, sorry about the America-centric assumptions here. To clarify a little bit, a Hail Mary is just the most extreme form of the more general aggressive strategy I’m trying to describe. Ie. the general strategy is one where the chances of an attempt working are low, but the benefits if it does work are high. With a Hail Mary in American football, the “probability of success” dial is turned all the way down, and the “benefits of success” dial is turned all the way up, basically. But I’m not advocating for that specifically here. I’m just advocating for the more general class of strategies that are high-risk, high-reward, when you happen to find yourself in a situation that justifies it.