Influence of the toss on the outcome

Discussion in 'Statistics and Analysis' started by poorvi, Jan 17, 2011.

  1. poorvi

    poorvi Member+

    Feb 5, 2006
    Bombay
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    I had done an exercise some years ago, when I established that winning the toss does have a big influence in the outcome of a cricket game (test matches).

    What I did was gathered data on Test Matches played in the last 10 years and broke them into the following form

    Game Won Game Drawn Game Lost
    Toss Won-------a--------------------b------------------------c-------
    Toss Lost-------d---------------------e--------------------------f------

    I also divided the total games by games played home and away.
    Then I did a chi^2 test to test for significant differences between the proportions and found the winning % is significantly different when tosses are won.

    I want to do the same for football games. Does anyone know of a site where I can get the outcome of the coin toss that occurs before a game listed side by side with the game result?

    All help appreciated.
     

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