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Psychological Impact of Losing an Easy Game (August 9, 2003)

This is simply a link to a thread I started in April.
--posted by TangoTiger at 10:26 PM EDT


Posted 2:25 a.m., August 10, 2003 (#1) - Andrew Edwards
  Why not test it? Look at all the games in which a team has blown an 'easy' lead, and look at the percentage of the time they win the next game, as compared to the expected percentage. Expected percentage could just be that year's winning percentage, or something.

Posted 10:34 a.m., August 10, 2003 (#2) - Tangotiger
  I believe that the link underlying that thread points to a study that does that.