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That’s how Tim Chartier, an applied mathematician specializing in sports analytics, explains the trend behind one of the NFL’s most debated rituals: the Super Bowl coin toss. On paper, the toss is a ...

A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results are in fact anything but random. But that’s okay, ...

Super Bowl Sunday turns even the smallest moments into betting opportunities, and nothing starts earlier than the opening coin toss. What was once a blink-and-you-miss-it formality is now one of the ...