What are the odds? .1%?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:36 am
Any statisticians out there?
In my mystery 70's league, my team stats 39 games into the season, says that the #of rolls against my pitchers is
809 hitters cards, 689 pitchers cards. It should be somewhere close to 50/50, obviously.
According to my basic stats class, die rolls follow the normal curve, with an SD of .5. With 1498 rolls I am expecting 749 hitters/749 pitchers with a SD of 19. So, 809 hitters is over 3 SD's away from the expected value, which should occur .1% of the time. Am I calculating this incorrectly? My pitchers are getting lit up and it doesn't seem that they should be that bad.
It seems highly improbable that this should happen.
In my mystery 70's league, my team stats 39 games into the season, says that the #of rolls against my pitchers is
809 hitters cards, 689 pitchers cards. It should be somewhere close to 50/50, obviously.
According to my basic stats class, die rolls follow the normal curve, with an SD of .5. With 1498 rolls I am expecting 749 hitters/749 pitchers with a SD of 19. So, 809 hitters is over 3 SD's away from the expected value, which should occur .1% of the time. Am I calculating this incorrectly? My pitchers are getting lit up and it doesn't seem that they should be that bad.
It seems highly improbable that this should happen.