LC, I am curious as to what cloud you pulled this out of. I do find it quite possible that I guess RB could play us this way and I admire the out of the box thought but I am curious as to what sparked the thought in the first place.
I was reading a post before I put this where someone was trying to figure out the 50/50 comment from Bala...they listed that there are 6 Mafia at most right now..and 16 townies total (the 1/3 thing)...I remembered that 2 people joined late and immediately saw that adding 2 mafia to the 6 originally planned for would make it a 50/50 split. I'm doing a lot of work with numbers lately designing stuff in Google Sketchup. See my post in the FW DIY section for an example.