Marvelous Sounding Stats

Oct 7, 2017

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On Thursday, during the Cleveland-New York playoff game, the excellent Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz made a pretty big deal of a marvelous sounding statistic.

They pointed out that teams that win Game 1 of a five-game series win 72% of the series.

They were trying to amplify the obvious but essential fact that the winner of Game 1 in a five-game series …

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