Superbowl Captains instructed to call TAILS?

Fishhead · Jan 28, 2005

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Of course they should not be, as KRACKMAN and myself stated earlier in the week, tails will come up more often,

Thus, it is the advantage of the person calling heads or tails to obviously choose TAILS.

Anybody willing to wager on the HEADS being called?

Jarbo · Jan 28, 2005

I will!

$100.00 ?

TheNuts · Jan 28, 2005

But the prop you show from Pinnacle is showing that they believe Heads to be favourite, ie -174. Even though you were going on about tails being more common.

I assume it is just the physcological preference of people to choose heads, over tails making this line.

Dante · Jan 28, 2005

Fish what is the exact percentage of the past 38 superbowls and the ratio of heads or tails being called....can you provide a detailed link to this information ?? thank you sir

viking611 · Jan 28, 2005

They don't use your ordinary quarter to flip so you're not going to have more tails than heads based on what you said earlier.

Fishhead · Jan 28, 2005

virchis said:
But the prop you show from Pinnacle is showing that they believe Heads to be favourite, ie -174. Even though you were going on about tails being more common.

I assume it is just the physcological preference of people to choose heads, over tails making this line.

HUH?

HEAD is the UNDERDOG

TAILS is the FAVORITE

sherman · Jan 28, 2005

Fishhead said:
HUH?

HEAD is the UNDERDOG

TAILS is the FAVORITE

he means heads is favored TO BE CALLED

Journeyman · Jan 28, 2005

Something is worded wrong here...

According to that Prop, if you think he will choose TAILS you say NO @ +155...

dav168 · Jan 28, 2005

Heads -174

Tails +155

Fishhead · Jan 28, 2005

Dante said:
Fish what is the exact percentage of the past 38 superbowls and the ratio of heads or tails being called....can you provide a detailed link to this information ?? thank you sir

Would be interesting to find that, I was thinking the samething.

Havent been able to as of yet.

By the way, here is the coin that will be flipped...............

aceduecetrey · Jan 28, 2005

Fish- why dont you bet tails and get in contact with reid and bellichek and tell them how tails is more likely to come?

trytrytry · Jan 28, 2005

i played heads (this is a $100 max prop by the way). No way on gods green earth that Pinny would offer up a seemingly 50-50 prop at this juice. no chance.

my guess is that the captains for these teams have both called heads in road games every game this year period. this is a 100% lock winner on heads to be called.

Holysmoke+ · Jan 28, 2005

trytrytry said:
i played heads (this is a $100 max prop by the way). No way on gods green earth that Pinny would offer up a seemingly 50-50 prop at this juice. no chance.

my guess is that the captains for these teams have both called heads in road games every game this year period. this is a 100% lock winner on heads to be called.

100% lock

rugby · Jan 28, 2005

The reason they are instructed to call tails is because the head side of the coin is heavier than the tail side of the coin. Sounds crazy, but it's true.

GL Players.....Rugby

Woody0 · Jan 31, 2005

Hope everyone played tails. You can now buy back and forget about what the captain calls.

Sun 2/6 Will the captain that picks coin toss choose heads

Maximum Wager: 100.00 USD
03:25 PM 615 Yes -134 Risk To Win
616 No +118 Risk To Win

jwblue · Jan 31, 2005

Is this free money then?

IS

Doug · Jan 31, 2005

rugby said:
The reason they are instructed to call tails is because the head side of the coin is heavier than the tail side of the coin. Sounds crazy, but it's true.

GL Players.....Rugby

It's not crazy ! As a numismatist the "heads" ( obverse) side of the coin ( medallion), in this case has greater " relief" ( more raised area), than the "tails" ( reverse). If like a coin ( die-struck, not cast), The dies used are a mirror image of the design ( but incused). More metal will flow into the side with more space ( design elements) as the blank ( planchet) is struck. If such a piece were precisely cut thru the rim at the center, the obverse would weigh more, thus making that side more likely to land down.

The most "top" heavy US coin I can think of is the 1921 Peace dollar. The relief is so high on the obverse that the coins couldn't be stacked very high, this resulted in the design being modified in 1922.

So if you want a good tails coin get a 1921 Peace dollar, should cost about $75 in circulated condition. I'll try to find an image.

Doug · Jan 31, 2005

http://www.jakesmp.net/AAA_giffile/Coin_Series/numbered_items/2100_2199/2114.html

I was a little low on price, more like $100

Doug · Jan 31, 2005

How do they determine which captain calls the coin toss ? Do they flip a coin ( medallion) for that ? I never paid any attention to it before.

quantumleap · Jan 31, 2005

DougJ said:
How do they determine which captain calls the coin toss ? Do they flip a coin ( medallion) for that ? I never paid any attention to it before.

I'm guessing the visiting team gets to choose. That leads to the question, how do they determine who is the visiting team in the Super Bowl?