Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!rokhsar From: rokhsar@lasspvax.UUCP (Dan Rokhsar) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: World Series Probabilities Message-ID: <539@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 22:33:46 EDT Article-I.D.: lasspvax.539 Posted: Thu Sep 19 22:33:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 04:02:45 EDT References: <538@lasspvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 14 Just one more note about our discussion of the home field advantage in the World Series: we realize that a .87 probability of winning at home is extreme (the home field advantage averaged over all teams for a season is roughly 0.53, but (a) the teams involved are not average, and the home field advantage is most pronounced for good teams and (b) the home field advantage could easily be enhanced by the excitement of the World Series). What is really needed is for someone to check the outcomes of individual games. We HOPE that it isn't a media induced phenomenon (TV did appear around 1950, after all!) Dan Rokhsar Eric Grannan :wq