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23/1 chance of being right.
Quote from: drfchound on June 20, 2017, 09:36:18 am23/1 chance of being right.22/1 actually.
Quote from: GazLaz on June 20, 2017, 09:37:58 amQuote from: drfchound on June 20, 2017, 09:36:18 am23/1 chance of being right.22/1 actually. mmm, 24 teams in L1 so i still reckon that with 23 home games it is 23/1.
Away to Port Vale
Quote from: drfchound on June 20, 2017, 09:41:56 amQuote from: GazLaz on June 20, 2017, 09:37:58 amQuote from: drfchound on June 20, 2017, 09:36:18 am23/1 chance of being right.22/1 actually. mmm, 24 teams in L1 so i still reckon that with 23 home games it is 23/1.It's 22/1.
I'm no mathematician, but - 24 team = 46 games (home and away)If you pick the right fixture or team that's 1 option removed, leaving either 45 fixtures or 22 teamsThereforeYou have a 45-1 chance of picking the right fixture (getting the home or away bit right as well)Or a 22-1 chance of picking the right team. Happy to be educated ....
I dreamt last night that we got Bradford away on the opening day. What a boring opening week that'd be!
WQuote from: RoversAlias on June 20, 2017, 01:18:24 pmI dreamt last night that we got Bradford away on the opening day. What a boring opening week that'd be!Well it would save me petrol money.Four pints in the Corn Dolly as well with Rovers and City mates.Win win for me, hopefully the same on the pitch.
Quote from: Donny Viking on June 20, 2017, 12:14:52 pmI'm no mathematician, but - 24 team = 46 games (home and away)If you pick the right fixture or team that's 1 option removed, leaving either 45 fixtures or 22 teamsThereforeYou have a 45-1 chance of picking the right fixture (getting the home or away bit right as well)Or a 22-1 chance of picking the right team. Happy to be educated ....Yep 22/1 to pick the right team. 22 wrong answers to one right one.
Quote from: GazLaz on June 20, 2017, 12:19:36 pmQuote from: Donny Viking on June 20, 2017, 12:14:52 pmI'm no mathematician, but - 24 team = 46 games (home and away)If you pick the right fixture or team that's 1 option removed, leaving either 45 fixtures or 22 teamsThereforeYou have a 45-1 chance of picking the right fixture (getting the home or away bit right as well)Or a 22-1 chance of picking the right team. Happy to be educated ....Yep 22/1 to pick the right team. 22 wrong answers to one right one. No, it's one right answer from 23 possibilities, so 23/1.In very simple terms, tossing a coin has two possibilities from which you can choose one outcome as your call, so the probability of calling right is 2/1 - one chance in two. If we use your logic of one right answer and one wrong answer, you have odds of 1/1, which is one chance in one, which equates to calling right every time.
Who said anything about odds? drfchound said 23/1 chance of being right, which is probability. And he's right.