Love or hate those World Cup predictions – I, for one, love them when they have a solid methodology behind them. Here’s FiveThirtyEight’s comprehensive (yet still easy to understand) description of how they predict not just the World Cup (yay, 2% chance of Switzerland winning the title), but individual matches. The most fascinating part: how they adjust the odds during live matches.
From Weekly Filet #276, in June 2018.
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So this turned out a lot more interesting than I had anticipated. If your opponents fear you as the best baseball player of all time, do you even need a bat to be successful? Love the idea behind this thought experiment and the thoroughness of the simulation. Oh, and the results.
From Weekly Filet #258, in December 2017.
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