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Tue Sep 08, 2009, 10:54pm

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Originally Posted by NorCalRef12

Before you decide that this is causation rather than correlation, can you answer this question. What percentage of teams that win the coin toss at the beginning of the game eventually win the game itself?

A more accurate analogy would be: How many teams winning the opening coin toss score first?

I don't think that correlating the coin toss with victory over a 60 minute game is valid.

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