Do you use your math skills to take advantage of the house?

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  • bigboydan
    SBR Aristocracy
    • 08-10-05
    • 55420

    #1
    Do you use your math skills to take advantage of the house?
    Do you use your math skills to take advantage of the house? Take the Sports Betting Math Quiz

    Players are invited to test their football betting knowledge with 20 questions like this one:
    Which of these would a Poisson distribution be best suited for predicting??

    * Home runs hit by a player in a season.
    * Number of throws before a dice thrower "craps out".
    * Mortality rates of persons bit by a King Cobra.
    * Total hits in the first inning of a baseball game.

    Upon completion of the Sports Betting Math Quiz the user receives the correct answers and the reasons behind them. This test has been written by Professional Gambler and SBR contributing writer Elihu Feustel

    Players can also take the Football Betting IQ Test. Many readers have struggled to score above 50%.
  • Ganchrow
    SBR Hall of Famer
    • 08-28-05
    • 5011

    #2
    The 9th question ("About how often should an experiment result within one standard deviation of the mean?") should really read, "Assuming normally distributed data, about how often should an experiment result within one standard deviation of the mean?".

    Without making an assumption regarding data distribution, this question is unanswerable.

    I'll also note that for questions #2 ("You want to risk $100 on a bet that pays 2:3 (-150). ...") and #3 ("Your group of friends entered a partnership where each of you had a 1/4th stake. ...") the correct answer comes up incorrectly in the software. The explanations in both cases, however, are correct.
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    • ivanator
      SBR Sharp
      • 05-01-06
      • 334

      #3
      Thanks, fixed
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      • Sinister Cat
        SBR MVP
        • 06-03-08
        • 1090

        #4
        The math quiz is cool. Took a look at the football quiz, but don't understand the first couple questions: what is a "normal" bet?
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        • Justin7
          SBR Hall of Famer
          • 07-31-06
          • 8577

          #5
          Wow, the average is just 50%. This is MUCH easier than the other NFL test.
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          • accuscoresucks
            SBR Hall of Famer
            • 11-03-07
            • 7160

            #6
            how about the open wizard of odds challenge
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            • Justin7
              SBR Hall of Famer
              • 07-31-06
              • 8577

              #7
              Originally posted by accuscoresucks
              how about the open wizard of odds challenge
              I hadn't heard of that... but it is no longer up, and doesn't appear to be beatable.
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              • SSLP
                SBR Hall of Famer
                • 02-29-08
                • 5232

                #8
                Yeah that dude is some sort of alien lol
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                • pats3peat
                  SBR MVP
                  • 10-23-05
                  • 1163

                  #9
                  i have not but it seems useful
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