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Nov 13, 2024
7:37:37am
Greg Kite's 'stache All-American
That's not how statistics works

You can be favored to win every game on your schedule, but that does not mean you are expected to go undefeated.  Along with the probability of winning a given game, is the probability of losing that game.  If the probability of winning is 75%, it means the probability of losing is 25%.  And when you consider the probability of losing any given game, over the season (or over the last 3 games) it means there is a very high probability that you will lose at least 1 of the games.

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Originally posted on Nov 13, 2024 at 7:37:37am
Message modified by Greg Kite's 'stache on Nov 13, 2024 at 7:40:21am
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