December 06, 2007

Great Mismatches Between Hubris and Accomplishment

(Do I just mean "smarm" instead of hubris?)

"What, you want to argue with 5,000 fact-based season simulations?"
--image caption on ESPN's front page

Five thousand is a tiny bit smaller (in fact it's smaller by a factor of 20) than the one simulations run by Baseball Prospectus for baseball's playoff odds.

Ironically, one million was itself the figure that brought derision down on Dr. Evil.

Posted by Matt Bruce at December 6, 2007 02:46 PM
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