Re: Picking March Madness using Creationist Math
- From: "TCE" <strangebreed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Mar 2006 23:51:59 -0800
When will you so called "sports" peoples ever learn?
THERE IS NO "BALL"!
Where's you proof there's a "ball" eh? And, if you can't prove there's
a "ball" then there's NO "SPORTS" IS THERE!?
Anyway, Hitler played basketball and look what happened to Poland.
Where's all your fancy-pants math now Mr. Probability? I'll tell you
where, burning in hell with your fancy pants "sports".
---
Strange
"Jeff Lanam" <jeff-dot-lanam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The NCAA men's basketball tournament is on, and I thought I would
apply creationist math to pick the winners. For those who don't follow
American college sports, there are 64 teams (excluding the play-in
game, which everyone does), in a single-elimination tournament. Thus,
there are 63 games played.
The following is for entertainment purposes only. Do not use this for
wagering. That would be a sin.
The average probability of any given team winning a game is, of
course, 0.5. Since a winning team has to win six games, the
probability for this is 0.5^6 or 0.015625. The probability that any
team will win the championship is therefore 63*0.015625 or
0.7914375. In other words, there is a better than 1 in 5 chance that
no team will win. The fact that there has always been a champion
indicates that supernatural intervention is involved. I call this
force the Intelligent Referee.
Understanding this, we can make some hypotheses about the winner based
on our beliefs about the IR. For example, Syracuse is named after a
city in ancient Greece. The ancient Greeks were not only pagans, you
know what else they did! So forget Syracuse. Forget LSU, too. You've
seen with the IR thinks about Louisiana. Indiana is the home of the
infamous Kinsey Institute, so they don't have a chance, and Nevada is
the home of all kinds of sins, so they're out too. I figure the final
four to be Oral Roberts, naturally; Iona, named for the holy island of
St. Columba; Air Force, since God^H^H^H the Intelligent Referee is a
Republican and they've been doing a lot of His promotion there
recently; and Oklahoma, because they're just such religious people
there.
Ok, the first round is just about over, so I can see how I did.
Syracuse is out, ok, and so is Nevada. Indiana is still in, but
there's time. Uh oh, the Sooners are gone, maybe someone in Tulsa had
an impure thought. Air Force is out, too. You know there was some
impure thinking going on there.
What's this? Iona got beat by the cursed LSU? I guess the IR works in
mysterious ways, His wonders to behold. But surely, Oral Roberts will
prevail! No, Oral Roberts got beaten by Memphis. Perhaps we can
adjust our theory to account for this. What is Memphis known for?
Elvis! That must be it! The Intelligent Referee is Elvis Presley!
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