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February 02, 2007
What are the Best Super Bowl Squares?
While I don't typically gamble, almost every year I take part in a friendly Super Bowl Squares Pool. This year I thought it would be fun to figure out which numbers win most often, to sort of gauge my likelihood of winning. I figured that 0, 3 and 7 would be the best numbers, just because a team is very likely to either not score or score once. However, I was not sure just how good these numbers were.
To come up with the answer, I started to manually add up all the scores from every Super Bowl using Wikipedia. Then my good friend Chris Federowicz decided to write a PERL script to do the same thing. Here are the results. Each number, 0-9 is shown, as well as how many times that number would have won the pool for a single quarter:
Digit 0: 91
Digit 1: 16
Digit 2: 8
Digit 3: 51
Digit 4: 34
Digit 5: 8
Digit 6: 26
Digit 7: 63
Digit 8: 9
Digit 9: 14
As you can see, 0, 3 and 7 are the big winners, with 1, 4, 6 and 9 coming in much lower. 2, 5 and 8 hardly won any at all.
Since my numbers this year are 9 and 8, I will be needing some serious luck.
UPDATE:
Part 2 of the results - Most popular combinations of scores (Thanks again Chris):
0, 7 = 19
0, 3 = 15
0, 0 = 12
0, 4 = 10
4, 7 = 10
3, 7 = 10
3, 6 = 7
7, 7 = 6
3, 4 = 6
3, 3 = 6
0, 9 = 5
0, 6 = 5
6, 7 = 5
0, 5 = 4
0, 2 = 3
1, 7 = 3
1, 5 = 3
0, 8 = 3
6, 8 = 3
1, 4 = 3
0, 1 = 3
7, 9 = 2
4, 9 = 2
2, 7 = 2
6, 6 = 2
5, 9 = 1
8, 9 = 1
2, 9 = 1
6, 9 = 1
1, 6 = 1
1, 8 = 1
2, 4 = 1
1, 9 = 1
2, 8 = 1
4, 4 = 1
1, 3 = 1
Posted by Chuck at 01:51 PM | Comments (0)