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  2. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    (The revived XFL, which launched in 2020, removed the coin toss altogether and allowed that decision to be made as part of a team's home field advantage.) In an association football match, the team winning the coin toss chooses which goal to attack in the first half; the opposing team kicks off for the first half. For the second half, the teams ...

  3. Jump ball - Wikipedia

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    Uniquely, 3x3, a formalized version of halfcourt three-on-three basketball overseen by FIBA, does not use a jump ball at any time in a game. Under current (2016) rules, the first possession is based on the result of a pregame coin toss; the winner can choose to have the first possession either at the start of the game or at the start of a ...

  4. Checking whether a coin is fair - Wikipedia

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    is small when compared with the alternative hypothesis (a biased coin). However, it is not small enough to cause us to believe that the coin has a significant bias. This probability is slightly higher than our presupposition of the probability that the coin was fair corresponding to the uniform prior distribution, which was 10%. Using a prior ...

  5. Fair coin - Wikipedia

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    If a cheat has altered a coin to prefer one side over another (a biased coin), the coin can still be used for fair results by changing the game slightly. John von Neumann gave the following procedure: [4] Toss the coin twice. If the results match, start over, forgetting both results. If the results differ, use the first result, forgetting the ...

  6. Packers CB Jaire Alexander nearly makes 'big mistake' after ...

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    Green Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander made his return to the field Sunday by crashing the pregame toss and nearly doing the one thing you should never do at a pregame coin toss.

  7. Bulls forget how to play basketball for entire half in ... - AOL

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    In the case of the Bulls, it was probably when they entered halftime down 71-29 after one of the worst offensive halves in the history of basketball. Here is the team dutifully reporting that fact ...

  8. Penney's game - Wikipedia

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    Player A selects a sequence of heads and tails (of length 3 or larger), and shows this sequence to player B. Player B then selects another sequence of heads and tails of the same length. Subsequently, a fair coin is tossed until either player A's or player B's sequence appears as a consecutive subsequence of the coin toss outcomes. The player ...

  9. The Fantasy Basketball Vibe Check: 10 players who could be ...

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    Here's a breakdown of players who might be on the move and their potential fantasy basketball impact. Jimmy Butler - SF/PF, Miami Heat The Situation : The Heat are reportedly open to trade calls ...