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Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by jessriedel on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:18PM (#14197072)
Yea, it's only been 10 games. Even for perfectly random coin tosses, the chance that you get the same result 9 times as the result of the first toss is 1 in 2^9 = 512. With lots of potential team pairings, and the obvious fact that teams can be above/below average over 4+ years (correlating the outcomes), this isn't that crazy.

http://www.footballdb.com/teams/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/team...

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Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by maxerickson on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:46PM (#14197828)
There's only 496 pairings with 32 teams.

The number of pairings between teams that play infrequently will be quite a bit smaller.

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