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Old 08-05-2021, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark17 View Post
Odds don't work that way. If you flip a coin and it comes up heads 5 times in a row, the odds of it coming up heads (or tails) on the 6th flip are still basically 50-50.

History doesn't bend the odds.
The year the Detroit Lions went 0-16, my buddy started betting on them to win after about the 8th or 9th game. He kept claiming that the odds of them losing this many in a row were astronomical, and that they inevitably had to win. He lost a lot of money that season.
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