Originally Posted by Don Perignom View Post
Originally Posted by Half Smoke View Post
how about figuring out the chance that one person could go 71-36 one year and 37-63 the next year__________(-:\_____________good luck with that - I know I couldn't do it
That's certifiably weird.
I don't find this all that unusual or weird. The sample size is small and that means almost anything can happen. You add the back to back good year and bad year and now you are dealing with a larger sample size and results should tend to revert closer to expectation.

I have had similar things occur twice now with my blackjack play years. In 2012 I had my 2nd worse year since I have been in Vegas, some 60k below expectation. The very next year my best ever some 50k above expectation.

In 2020 I had what now is my worse year in Vegas, with results barely into 5 figures at 13k. There was some covid related things to this year in playing less). The very next year 2021 was my second best, well over 100k.

Two different case of one of my worst years immediately followed by one of my best. But in both cases if you add the two years together creating a larger sample size, results come pretty darn close to expectation. Almost exactly like the sports contest example above. This is why you should never get too excited or upset by any small sample size results.