Baseball Competitions.Are Enough Games Played?

Citation
D. Gibbons, Jean et al., Baseball Competitions.Are Enough Games Played?, American statistician , 32(3), 1978, pp. 89-95
Journal title
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
32
Issue
3
Year of publication
1978
Pages
89 - 95
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
This article investigates the number of games of baseball that should be played (1) in a World Series competition, and (2) in a pennant race competition within each league, in order to have a reasonable level of confidence that the best team wins the competition.The current number of games played is found to be highly inadequate for the World Series and only barely sufficient for the pennant race.