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Old 11-03-2005, 01:51 PM
OrangeKing OrangeKing is offline
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Default Re: closest game to poker, skill v. luck

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Baseball

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This is actually not a horrible answer, except that teams of hugely different skill wouldn't have much variance in their results. But teams on the same level - say, almost all major-league teams - do have a lot of variance.

An even better example would be a single batter's batting average. There is a ton of variance there that commentators go nuts trying to explain...strangely enough, you very rarely hear them mention sample size. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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