🧵 Basketball betting odds
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:45:28 UTC No. 16086947
Friend of mine posted this on social media, explaining which numbers were ideal in a NCAA championship betting pool. The winning/loser number is the last digit of the score. Gut feeling tells me the scores are too random to determine actual %'s of winning (random 2 pointers, 3 pointers, free throws, etc.), but I have no idea how to come to that conclusion via math.
tl;dr do you think the %'s are valid and why?
Anonymous at Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:08:10 UTC No. 16087029
>>16086947
I wouldn't expect it to be uniformly distributed, and it doesn't look like it is. Look at the winning point differential and you'll probably see an even clearer pattern.