Tag: sports

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Draft Lotteries and the Problem of Rewarding Failure

May 15, 2025

Professional sports use weighted lotteries to distribute top draft picks. The system is an elegant but imperfect solution to one of the strangest incentive problems in competition.

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The Coin Toss in Sports: Ritual, Strategy, and Superstition

May 9, 2025

Every major sport uses a coin toss to settle something before the game begins. It seems trivial — but the strategy, psychology, and controversy around it are anything but.

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