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By: dan
Also, Justin rose putt alone on 17 was around a 3% chance of sinking. If this one shot doesn’t happen Usa most likely wins. Also, context context context. In ryder cup/history it was a miracle. it is...
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By: Dwayne
The matchups were not even though, and that’s why it was legitimately miraculous. You should take the rankings of each of the players into account somehow to make a proper calculation, as well as home...
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By: Akshay
Does the fact that it is possible to tie the game change this from being a binomial distribution? 0 1
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By: Baltimark
Also, the matches weren’t _necessarily_ independent. Oh sure, for any ease of calculation, you need to assume so. I wouldn’t want to come up with the joint distribution. But, once the Euros started...
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By: Nik W
Could a more “realistic” statistic be created if instead of a coin toss, you considered 3 determinants – win, halved hole and loss. Then assuming all external factors were “even” (crowd, home soil,...
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By: Joe Soap
Perhaps one should also mention that the miracle started on the Saturday afternoon, the USA being 10-4 up with two games still to finish. So the requirement at that point was to win 10 out of 14 games....
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By: Beasers
Surely for it to be genuinely considered a miracle the odds would have to have been 0%, right? 0 0
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By: dan
Just saying things over and over doesn’t make them valid? Context is everything! Fact: The ryder cup is played every 2 years Fact: at 10% we expect this comeback to happen 1 in 10 times that there is...
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By: Calvin007
The miracle was the quality of golf played by europe against a vitreolic, venemous, “patriotic” (the americans often hide behind this excuse) crowd who systematically verbally abused the european team...
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