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Re: Repdigit Numbered Teams

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Originally Posted by Bongle
Just having the percentages isn't really enough, you need to show that there is a statistically significant improvement over picking teams at random. That is, if I picked 18 teams at random, what is the variability of that group's retention rate?

Come to think of it, that's a pretty easy stats problem...

So basically...

The binomial distribution can tell us the probability ...
Wow! Richard, I think you have formally been out-statistic-ed!
I never though I'd see that day!
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