Selection Sunday 2013 was ten days away and no team dominated. Automatic bids, the bubble, the magic number of wins and what the futures odds said, plus how the… Continue reading »
Category Archives: Sports
Sports stories from the StudentNewsie archive, from Selection Sunday and the NCAA tournament to the Phil Ivey casino case. We like to look at the numbers behind the story: what the betting odds implied and where the line between skill and luck falls.
In 2012 Crockfords casino in London withheld about £7.7 million Phil Ivey won at punto banco. What happened, the edge-sorting technique behind it, and how the courts… Continue reading »