re: Games above/below ".500"

The total doesn't matter. It's how many wins or losses a team needs to get to an even record at that point in time.

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Do you have evidence my maths is wrong?

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The problem is more fundamental to the modern understanding of mathematics. Namely, the concept of "infinity" and the paradoxical nature of its use in comprehending sets of numbers.

Imagine a rubber band.

But not just any rubber band – and extraordinary one. In front of it, there is a sign which says, “You can stretch this rubber band infinitely.”

We can interpret this sentence two ways. One is coherent; one is incoherent.

The coherent interpretation is to say, “There is no inherent limitation to the stretching of this rubber band. It will stretch as far as you stretch it.”

The incoherent interpretation is to say, “The rubber band can be stretched ‘until it reaches an infinite size.’” That, at some point, you’ll have completely arrived at an “actually-infinitely stretched rubber band.”

This irrational interpretation is how mathematicians conceive of infinite sets. Instead of thinking, “There is no inherent limitation to the size of set I can create”, they think, “There is such a thing as ‘an actually-infinitely-sized’ set”.


The implication here is that the last century of mathematics has been built on illogical foundations. And so, Mason Dixon Swine, it's not that you're erring in your calculation, it's that the entire premise of the math you're using is flawed.