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  2. Win probability - Wikipedia

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    The art of estimating win probability involves choosing which pieces of context matter. Baseball win probability estimates often include whether a team is home or away, inning, number of outs, which bases are occupied, and the score difference. Because baseball proceeds batter by batter, each new batter introduces a discrete state.

  3. Odds algorithm - Wikipedia

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    When =, Ano, Kakinuma & Miyoshi 2010 showed that the tight lower bound of win probability is equal to +. For general positive integer r {\displaystyle r} , Matsui & Ano 2016 proved that the tight lower bound of win probability is the win probability of the secretary problem variant where one must pick the top-k candidates using just k attempts .

  4. Russian roulette - Wikipedia

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    Russian roulette as depicted in the 1925 movie The Night Club. Russian roulette (Russian: Русская рулетка, romanized: Russkaya ruletka) is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against the head or body (of the opponent or themselves), and pulls the trigger.

  5. Win probability added - Wikipedia

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    In win shares, a player with 0 win shares has contributed nothing to his team; in win probability added, a player with 0 win probability added points is average. Also, win shares would give the same amount of credit to a player if he hit a lead-off solo home run as if he hit a walk-off solo home run; WPA, however, would give vastly more credit ...

  6. Log5 - Wikipedia

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    Log5 is a method of estimating the probability that team A will win a game against team B, based on the odds ratio between the estimated winning probability of Team A and Team B against a larger set of teams.

  7. Game of chance - Wikipedia

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    Roulette is a game of pure chance; no strategy can give players advantages, the outcome is determined purely by which numbered pocket a ball randomly falls into.. A game of chance is in contrast with a game of skill.

  8. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    [50] [13] [49] The conditional probability of winning by switching is ⁠ 1/3 / 1/3 + 1/6 ⁠, which is ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠. [2] The conditional probability table below shows how 300 cases, in all of which the player initially chooses door 1, would be split up, on average, according to the location of the car and the choice of door to open by the host.

  9. AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol - Wikipedia

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    AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol, also known as the DeepMind Challenge Match, was a five-game Go match between top Go player Lee Sedol and AlphaGo, a computer Go program developed by DeepMind, played in Seoul, South Korea between 9 and 15 March 2016.