08.29.07
Cowboys over Ravens by almost four touchdowns?
No, that was the Rangers over the Orioles by 27 runs. And it inspired Stephen Dubner to blog about the line score in his Freakonomics blog:
If you had to guess when the Rangers scored their runs over 9 innings (the game was in Baltimore, so Texas batted in the top of the 9th), how would you distribute the runs? If I had to do it, my linescore would probably look about like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
4 3 1 0 5 6 3 5 3
But here is the actual linescore:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0 0 0 5 0 9 0 10 6
The Rangers scored 30 runs in just 4 innings! It’s a good reminder, once again, that the way data plays out in real life is often nowhere near as orderly, predictable, or consistent as you might imagine it to be.
(HT: Sendhil)
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