2-0 Jake!

[bonestomper]

To make some of you feel better they were looking at stats in baseball and the chances of a weaker team winning a seven game series.

And if the superior team could beat its opponent, on average, 2 out of 3 times they meet, the inferior team will still win a 7-game series about once every 5 match-ups. There is really no way for a sports league to change this. In the lopsided 2/3-probability case, for example, you’d have to play a series consisting of at minimum the best of 23 games to determine the winner with what is called statistical significance, meaning the weaker team would be crowned champion 5 percent or less of the time. And in the case of one team’s having only a 55-45 edge, the shortest significant “world series” would be the best of 269 games,

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So when you lose a close one it might really just be bad luck as opposed to your team sucking.