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Ensuring the best team wins Print E-mail
Aug 20, 2007

This is a fascinating article for those who always get into the arguments regarding whether the champion for the year was actually the best team.  It uses probability and statistics modeling to determine how likely it is for the strongest team to come out on top.  Naturally, shorter seasons like football lend themselves to more parity than long seasons like baseball's.

Read the story here.