Probability and baseball in the news
“They Tried to Beat DiMaggio. Like Everyone Else, They Failed.” A great article in the NY Times including probability calculations from the MIT Sports Lab.
David Waldstein
“Getting a 56-game streak is incredible,” said Anette Hosoi, a professor of applied mathematics and data analysis at M.I.T. “The odds of that are really astronomically small.”
Read more on the NY Times.
