I gotcha we have you all right. I hear you guys are real quiet

Get off the field

I'm so sad you weren't recording

I am recording oh good

I think you have your sound. Okay

Good morning and welcome to episode 319 of effectively wild the first episode of our second off season the Boston Red Sucks

One-the-World series and so we're joined today by Zachary Levine who was in the press box for the game today

And we're also joined by Ben Lindbergh. Hi Ben. Hi Zachary. Hi

How's it going good? So first two quick pieces of business from yesterday's show one of them is

suitable for Zachary because we had talked about whether a team would rather

Be 20 games better than their opponent in a seven game series

but lose the first game or be equal to their opponent and

win the first game and

We got some final numbers thanks to Zachary the team that loses the first game

But is 20 wins better than its opponent is roughly a 59% favorite to still win

the series

so

So that's good to know that's actually not irrelevant information. There are scenarios in your life where you might have

Team in a playoff series that is around 20 wins better or worse than its opponent and they might find themselves up or down one game

And you will now know what this means for them

So I'm actually glad that we did this pointless exercise and I hope somebody recorded it

John Chenier actually did on our Facebook page

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