Perfect brackets: They’re rather hard. You know this. Before we get into the whole “you have a one-in-who-gives-a-craptillion chance of winning” part of the story, though, let’s talk about why it’s so hard to grasp big numbers like this. Generally speaking, without a way to anchor a number to an everyday concept, people tend to […]
Perfect brackets: They’re rather hard. You know this. Before we get into the whole “you have a one-in-who-gives-a-craptillion chance of winning” part of the story, though, let’s talk about why it’s so hard to grasp big numbers like this. Generally speaking, without a way to anchor a number to an everyday concept, people tend to […]
On March 12, 2013, University of Connecticut freshman forward Breanna Stewart played 37 minutes. She scored 16 points but collected only two rebounds and one block while going 0-4 from 3-point range. With the game tied at 59 and less than 10 seconds to play, Skylar Diggins of Notre Dame stole the ball and dished […]
On March 12, 2013, University of Connecticut freshman forward Breanna Stewart played 37 minutes. She scored 16 points but collected only two rebounds and one block while going 0-4 from 3-point range. With the game tied at 59 and less than 10 seconds to play, Skylar Diggins of Notre Dame stole the ball and dished […]
Texas A&M’s comeback against Northern Iowa was pretty epic — like, 3,000-to-1 odds against epic. In this video, Neil Paine and Reuben Fischer-Baum talk about how FiveThirtyEight’s in-game win probability model saw the game unfolding and where it ranked according to our excitement index. They then settle last week’s wager about who could predict the […]
