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2008 All-Star Game A Mathematical Marvel?

rbimagazine.com — How rare was it to have a 290 minute - 15 inning Mid-Summer Classic? Leave it up to one of those crazy math idiots!

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  • jspegele, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2"Darren Glass proved that there was a 0.2% chance of a 15-inning game occurring, and that a game similar to the 2008 Mid-Summer Classic is expected to occur only once out of every 500 games."

    With over 2,500 MLB games a year this sounds more like a mathematical certainty than a mathematical marvel.
  • ajs508, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Maybe he should figure out the probability of someone else trying to come up with an experiment dumber than his
  • RyeBrye, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2˙ssɐ sıɥ dn pɐǝɥ sıɥ sɐɥ ʎnƃ sıɥʇ
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