Your team is down by a couple of baskets going into the final minutes of the game. Is it time to panic or is it still anyone’s to win? Plenty have certainly come back from apparently dire situations. Just last month the Lakers beat the Thunder in double overtime after being down by 11... »
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How Close is Close
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Tags: basketball, prediction, wagers
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Daniel Reeves is a co-founder of Beeminder and Sharad Goel is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research - New York City. They are both former members of the Microeconomics and Social Systems (MESS) Group at Yahoo! Research. Kelly Savage illustrates the blog.
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