Adam Laiacano

Last year, the dataists blog posted about the superbowl pool boxes, and which are the best ones to get. If you don’t know how these pools work, here’s Drew Conway’s description:

The basic idea is that anyone can participate in the pool by purchasing boxes on a 10×10 grid. This works as follows: when a box is purchased the buyer writes his or her name in any available box. Once all boxes have been filled in, the grid is then labeled 0 through 9 in random order along the horizontal and vertical axis. These numbers correspond to score tallies for both the home and away teams in the game

The results are probably what you expect: 0, 3, and 7 are the best, and scores in the first quarter are far more likely to end in one of these numbers than at the end of the game.