SPORTS: The Streak

Die hard baseball fans participate in MLB.com's Beat the Streak, a game where one must pick one player per day that will get a hit, stringing more than 56 consecutive picks correctly.

A grad student and a professor at Cornell decided to create an alternate baseball universe and simulate the history of baseball to determine how likely DiMaggio's 56 game hit streak actually was. The result - the streak was all but a sure thing to happen, but odds are it wouldn't have been DiMaggio. The longest simulated streak actually reached 109 games. Obviously it would be nerely impossbile to simulate things such as playing with injuries, weather, stress of beating the streak, and how the game of baseball has dramatically changed. But a cool idea nonetheless.

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