World Series Baseball Puzzle

Reply #3

cottoneyedjoe — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:17:03 GMT

It could if I rewrote it, LOL.

Reply #2

Orange71 — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 21:17:29 GMT

cottoneyedjoe, correct answer. Nice job. Can your program handle the general case of best M out of N, where M is int(N/2) + 1

Reply #1

cottoneyedjoe — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 18:03:51 GMT

This is an interesting problem and a good programming challenge. I got a probability of

0.59637825

for Team Red to win. If the home/away are reversed, they are still favored to win, but by a smaller margin. Quite and advantage for a team to get the first two games at home.

World Series Baseball Puzzle

Orange71 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:50:38 GMT

Team Red and Team Blue are playing in the World Series of Baseball. Best 4 of 7 games wins the Series, and it ends when a team has won 4 games.

The game venue schedule for Team Red is Home / Home /Away / Away / Away ( if needed ) / Home ( if needed ) / Home ( if needed ). Expert baseball pundits have analyzed the teams and have determined that the probability of Team Red winning a game at Home is 0.65 (65%) and Away is 0.4 (40%). Assume these probabilities remain fixed regardless of the outc... [ More ]