really?

[Frostbyte]

I believe in the long run, everybody does, but it has no value to us as players. What are you going to do with it? Is it going to change the way you play blackjack? It gives us a lot of statistics which are frozen in time, until something new is added. Then new sims might cause a change. As long as you've included new verifiable information that gives you better results, the long term importance is less relevant.

The long run is supposed to change the way you play blackjack. N0 more or less quantifies the long run and all else being equal we select our games according to the lowest possible N0 (or highest possible SCORE; as they're quite directly related).

To look at it another way, at a given game we try to pick whatever bet spread makes the long run come quickest... different spreads affect N0 differently depending on the specific game. But since N0 is proportional to your average doubling time, picking the shortest long run also maximizes your long-term growth.