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  2. Pythagorean expectation - Wikipedia

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    The latter is more the case in basketball, for various reasons, including that many more points are scored than in baseball (giving the team with higher quality more opportunities to demonstrate that quality, with correspondingly fewer opportunities for chance or luck to allow the lower-quality team to win.) Baseball has just the right amount ...

  3. Win probability - Wikipedia

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    The art of estimating win probability involves choosing which pieces of context matter. Baseball win probability estimates often include whether a team is home or away, inning, number of outs, which bases are occupied, and the score difference. Because baseball proceeds batter by batter, each new batter introduces a discrete state.

  4. Prediction game - Wikipedia

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    A prediction game is a game which allow users to guess at the outcome of future events. Prediction games are generally operated online and are free for users to play. Points are awarded to players who most accurately predict the outcome of an event, and those points are converted into cash prizes.

  5. College Football Playoff bracket picks, predictions: Who will ...

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    There was endless politicking by coaches, athletic directors and fans, but the College Football Playoff selection committee settled on a 12-team field in the end and now it's time to make some picks.

  6. Sports betting - Wikipedia

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    Odds boards in a Las Vegas sportsbook. Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome.. Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a bookmaker/sportsbook, or illegally through privately run enterprises referred to as "bookies".

  7. Worst team in MLB history? 120-loss record inevitable for ...

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    And so, for a team that’s 31-109, that’s 7-48 in its last 55 games, that’s a worst-in-history 4-38 since the All-Star break, that’s been outscored by more than 300 runs and that will ...

  8. Statistical association football predictions - Wikipedia

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    Statistical Football prediction is a method used in sports betting, to predict the outcome of football matches by means of statistical tools. The goal of statistical match prediction is to outperform the predictions of bookmakers [citation needed] [dubious – discuss], who use them to set odds on the outcome of football matches.

  9. ‘Why do we want to bastardize our game?’: MLB players and ...

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    “The best part of baseball is when the guy least expected to get the big hit delivers at the end of the game. A memory that lasts a lifetime for the player and fans.