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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
You are better at applied stats than me then... I don't remember how to get the possible combinations, but it is 14 choose 1, plus 13 choose1, plus 12 choose 1, plus 11 choose 1.
If that's 24,024 then I have no clue. The article said 1001 combinations..... so if so, that's a nice number to work with as well as the optics of it.
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Correct: 14 x 13 x 12 x 11
As for 1,001 - that is simply the minimum number of results required in order to create the odds that they desire (there is no smaller denomination that allows for those odds)
So it looks like you take your 1,001 results and copy them 24 times over the spectrum of the 24,024 results you get from the 4 balls.
For example, Florida gets 250 x 24 = 6,000 lines on their chart
Colorado gets 188 x 24 = 4,512 etc
That works. But still seems a bit unnecessarily complicated to me.
Maybe one of their goals is to keep it incomprehensible.
And I would guess another goal is the optics of 14 balls (for 14 teams)