http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...st-1-in-30-Million-Odds-Report-396831251.html[h=1]Chargers Lost Games Against 1-in-30 Million Odds: Report[/h][h=2][/h][h=3]By
Laura McVicker[/h]
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OAKLAND, CA - DECEMBER 24: Philip Rivers #17 of the San Diego Chargers gets sacked in the endzone for a safety by Denico Autry #96 of the Oakland Raiders in the third quarter of their NFL game at O.co Coliseum on December 24, 2015 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
There’s a sports saying “ball don’t lie.”
Well, an analyst tells The
Wall Street Journal that in looking at the Chargers’ dreadful start to the 2016 season, the numbers don’t lie.
Financial analyst Seth Bienstock says that the Bolts “lost four games against all odds –
actually not all odds, just one-in-30 million odds.” Yikes.
Bienstock said that if you look at four of the games in which the Chargers held a fourth quarter lead, at least half of them held a 99.9 percent probability of the team winning.
The Wall Street Journal article states that if you look at all four of those games combined, the Bolts had a .00000034 percent chance of losing. And yet they did.
“So if you ran a computer simulation of these games from these points 30 million times, the Chargers would lose all four just once,” Bienstock told the Wall Street Journal.
The article is an example of the growing national spotlight on the Chargers as they struggle with injuries and the ability to even win more than one game.
[h=1]If There’s a Way to Lose, the San Diego Chargers Will Find It[/h][h=2]The team has lost four games against all odds—actually not all odds, just one-in-30 million odds.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-ther...ego-chargers-will-find-it-1476144466?mod=e2tw[/h]
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ByMichael Salfino
<time class="timestamp"> Oct. 10, 2016 8:07 p.m. ET</time>Legendary NFL coach Bill Parcells famously said “you are what your record says you are.” Parcells said this before watching the 2016 Chargers.
San Diego currently resides in the AFC West cellar with a 1-4 record following a loss to Oakland on Sunday. But to reach that point, the Chargers have strung together four improbable, gut-wrenching,
Atrocious beat, that ^^^. Sounds way too familar, pretty sure I got victimized by that one as well. And then them going to KC last game of the year last season facing a 2nd string KC team nothing to play for and SD needing just to win the game to make the postseason IIRC SD 7 point Faves they lose outright of course. At least if memory serves me they screwed up that ENTIRE GAME, like, start to finish rather than the nightmare they put you through with that above.
