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Totally meaningless statistics.
But for those that understand statistics, if you were to take those individual ESPN probabilities as gospel, which they are not, and use a formula that takes into account the probabilities of the independent events (games) to determine the total win probability, it would result in multiple losses being the most likely outcome. I haven’t calculated it, but with those ESPN numbers, it should be somewhere in the neighborhood of +/- 2-3 losses.
But it’s pretty much a meaningless exercise, because the initial ESPN probabilities, in my opinion, are totally meaningless - garbage in garbage out.
But for those that understand statistics, if you were to take those individual ESPN probabilities as gospel, which they are not, and use a formula that takes into account the probabilities of the independent events (games) to determine the total win probability, it would result in multiple losses being the most likely outcome. I haven’t calculated it, but with those ESPN numbers, it should be somewhere in the neighborhood of +/- 2-3 losses.
But it’s pretty much a meaningless exercise, because the initial ESPN probabilities, in my opinion, are totally meaningless - garbage in garbage out.