Just to supplement the math in the article with even more, I ran another calculation. To give Faded even more benefit of the doubt and treating all of his predictions in the last 3 seasons as equally likely to result in a perfect week (i.e. whether he submitted before or after the video was posted was entirely coincidental), the probability of getting 11 or more perfect weeks over the 40 prediction weeks he submitted is 3.52 x 10^-8, or about 1 in 28.6 million. Still an extremely unlikely occurrence, and from there it's even more unlikely that all of those 11 would coincidentally happen to come in weeks where he submitted after the video was uploaded. It's pretty obvious that cheating is the correct interpretation of events.
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