When you flip a coin to make a decision, there's an equal chance of getting heads and tails. What if you flipped two coins repeatedly, so that one option would win as soon as two heads showed up in a ...

Does it matter who wins the coin toss before the Super Bowl? Should you care if your team loses the toss? Full disclosure: I don't really pay much attention to professional football (I'm more of a ...

For any event that has multiple outcomes with different probabilities, it can be helpful and illustrative to construct a chart or diagram of the possible outcomes. Tree diagrams are a useful example ...

A coin flip is the quintessence of fifty-fifty chance, but a large group of researchers recently overturned its equitable reputation. Recording a painstaking 350,000+ coin flips by hand, they found ...

Bill Belichick is never unprepared. Or at least that's the perception. When other coaches struggle with when to use timeouts or how to manage the clock, the Patriots coach, almost effortlessly, always ...

Follow Chiefs vs Eagles live at the Super Bowl. Our friend and boss Nando Di Fino sent us down a Super Bowl coin toss betting rabbit hole last year. You know how you start looking up one thing on the ...

Flip a coin. Heads? Take a step to the left. Tails? Take a step to the right. In the quantum world? Go in both directions at once, like a wave spreading out. Called the walker analogy, this random ...

The NFL has brought playoff OT rules to the regular season, but will they alter the previous tried-and-true strategy? We ...