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Message: [QUOTE="Get a Job, post: 4232866, member: 9775"] Very interesting read. In its totality, I think this analysis refutes the blanket statement "It's hard to beat a team three times" more than it supports it. Really, all it shows is that a.) it's definitely hard to beat a [U]superior[/U] team 3 times in season, and b.) when two teams are nearly evenly matched, and the slightly better team wins the first two, said team wins the third matchup at a slightly lower rate than expected Outside of these specific and relatively rare scenarios, the cliché is untrue. Even the modified version, that it's hard to beat a good team is meaningless at best: One has to consider the relative strengths of both teams in question. It's not that hard for a great team to beat a good team 3 times in a season. [/QUOTE]