Tag Archives: playoff
In Search of the Random
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 13th October 2014Baseball’s annual encounter with randomness is well underway. I’ve already written about this – here and here. But the baseball playoffs allow revisiting the topic. Baseball is a sport where the best team loses almost as many games as it wins. Thus, a very large sample size is required to determine which team is the…
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Why the Baseball Playoffs are an Elaborate Coin Toss
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th October 2011Consider this: According to Elias, out of the 52 best-of-seven series in baseball history to be tied 2-2 after four games, as this one was, the winner of Game 5 went on to win the series 36 times, or 69 percent of the time… The author of this insight got paid for making it. A while…
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