
The MLB Coin-Flipping Contest
What are the chances that wild-card teams will make it to the World Series and win?“Let me tell you sonny, how it used to be in the good old days.” Is there anything worse than what Bruce Springsteen called “boring stories of glory days”? He goes on, “I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it but I probably will.” Well, this year’s World Series brought back memories of the glory days when there were two Major League Baseball leagues — the American League and the National League — and the regular season winners of each league met in the World Series. Now, each league has three divisions (East, Central, and West) and a complicated sequence of playoff games that involves the three division winners and three wild card teams in Read More ›