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  • 04-04-2010 12:22am
    #1
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭


    maybe should be in the stats forum, but how does this make sense..

    on paddypower Arsenal to win the league is 9/2.

    to win CL is 14/1.

    to win CL + PL is 66/1

    But , to win NO trophies is 1/6 , how does this make sense ?

    since these are the last competitions they are in ?

    How can it be "Really unlikely" to win both .. and relatively unlikely
    to win them on their own - YET be very unlikely that they win nothing ???


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  • #2
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    the_monkey wrote: »
    maybe should be in the stats forum, but how does this make sense..

    on paddypower Arsenal to win the league is 9/2.

    to win CL is 14/1.

    to win CL + PL is 66/1

    But , to win NO trophies is 1/6 , how does this make sense ?

    since these are the last competitions they are in ?

    How can it be "Really unlikely" to win both .. and relatively unlikely
    to win them on their own - YET be very unlikely that they win nothing ???

    Those odds are suggesting that it's very likely they will win nothing, not unlikely!!


  • #3
    Eirebear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    If we had an infinite amount of monkeys, and an infinite amount of computers....would they be able to stick a winning bet on this selection of odds?:P


  • #4
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    Eirebear wrote: »
    If we had an infinite amount of monkeys, and an infinite amount of computers....would they be able to stick a winning bet on this selection of odds?:P

    I don't know, but we'd sure as hell belt out a great novel!!


  • #5
    flahavaj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,235 ✭✭✭✭flahavaj


    the_monkey wrote: »
    maybe should be in the stats forum, but how does this make sense..

    on paddypower Arsenal to win the league is 9/2.

    to win CL is 14/1.

    to win CL + PL is 66/1

    But , to win NO trophies is 1/6 , how does this make sense ?

    since these are the last competitions they are in ?

    How can it be "Really unlikely" to win both .. and relatively unlikely
    to win them on their own - YET be very unlikely that they win nothing ???

    1/6 means they think its a near-certainty they'll win nothing.


  • #6
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    monkey9 wrote: »
    Those odds are suggesting that it's very likely they will win nothing, not unlikely!!


    of course .... sorry ...

    tk


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  • #7
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    the_monkey wrote: »
    of course .... sorry ...

    tk

    Well, you know.....us Monkey's need to look out for each other!!


  • #8
    flahavaj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,235 ✭✭✭✭flahavaj


    monkey9 wrote: »
    Well, you know.....us Monkey's need to look out for each other!!

    I wonder what ye could do if we gave ye a typewriter.:pac:


  • #9
    RandolphEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    128347587844687500fail.jpg


  • #10
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Ooooh a lolcat "FAIL" pic.

    How clever.


  • #11
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    FearDark wrote: »
    Ooooh a lolcat "FAIL" pic.

    How clever.

    Plus, who knows what that cat was trying to achieve?? Maybe he means to do what he's doing in the photo. Maybe the poster, by showing a photo of a cat who is achieving in an attempt to prove that someone else is failing is, in a deliciously ironic twist, in fact failing himself!!


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  • #12
    RandolphEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    FearDark wrote: »
    Ooooh a lolcat "FAIL" pic.

    How clever.
    And funny; clever and funny!
    monkey9 wrote: »
    Plus, who knows what that cat was trying to achieve?? Maybe he means to do what he's doing in the photo. Maybe the poster is failing by showing a cat who is achieving in an attempt to prove that someone is failing and therefore the poster, in a deliciously ironic twist, is in fact failing himself!!

    I know for a fact the cat was trying to avoid getting the ball in the face


  • #13
    Pro. F
    Registered Users Posts: 12,219 ✭✭✭✭Pro. F


    monkey9 wrote: »
    I don't know, but we'd sure as hell belt out a great novel!!

    ''It was the best of times it was the... blurst of times?!'' :mad: You stupid monkey!


  • #14
    eZe^
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭eZe^


    Thread locked, the OP made a mistake, it was pointed out, she/ he now understands. No big deal.


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