My youngest son was telling me he went to a basketball game recently. He said he really enjoyed it because he went with his girlfriend and the tickets were free. They had a good time. But him telling me about that reminded me of a college professor that I had at University of Central Florida.
He was a statistics professor and would go on and on in our evening class about the National Basketball Association teams and professional basketball statistics and how he was tracking the statistics for his team and could predict a win with a certain percentage of accuracy.
He was very excited about it. He would tell us about it every week over and over. Remembering that reminded me of a guy that I worked with. When the lottery came out in our state he put together a pool of people that would all throw in some money and then he used some analysis to statistically predict the winning numbers and would spread their money out on the numbers around those so that they could statistically have a better chance of winning. I don't know that they ever won very much but they were pretty intense about it for a couple of years.
I always think that's funny when people get all intense about statistics. Numbers don't lie unless you get marketing involved and then numbers can tell you almost anything that you want to hear.
Be careful out there.
