"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
The conventional wisdom of baseball is that five game series are easier for bad teams to win than seven game series. But how much easier? I made a graph:
The red line is seven games, the blue, a five game series. The difference is about 3% max.
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