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Rugby legend Will Carling tells El Reg: Techie stats bods will love this year's Six Nations

Fat_Tony

Re: From commentator curse to...

Yep, stats in sport can generally help explain a past outcome but rarely predict a future outcome. There'll be lots of %ages of likelihoods given for predictions, which will just be ignored. So a 80% chance of penalty being successful (+/- 10%) will always be called as 80%

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