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Well, duh. At 63 games this has an expected value of $1e-10.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1000000000%2F2%5E63



That would be the case if each of the games were played between truly equal teams. In fact, many of the games are much easier to predict than 50/50 since one team is better than another. So the expected value is actually higher, (though presumably still quite small, of course!)


No, that's only if you assume every game has the same odds as a coin flip, which is far from true.




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