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Ep. 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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Is There a Probability of Wining in a Tournament?

There's an assumption that among the three teams in any branch of the playoff bracket, they are equally likely to win. I wonder if you can somehow use past data to sort of look at how you're seated and then use that to come up with a probability of your likelihood of winning. You kind of assume that the seat is some probabilistic value on the score that you'll ultimately get.

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