Granted that amount would be smaller
than simply taking the 5Dimes future
bet, but if we average the potential winnings if Baltimore knocks off San Fran ($ 1,083.75) with that smaller $ 850 figure, we get $ 966.87 — a number that is actually lower
than the $ 975 from placing a single futures
bet.
I will
bet you dollars to donuts (
granted, not that great odds given what the dollar is doing these days) that not only will grad student B find the source of the error first, she will also have a better idea of how to correct for it and salvage the dataset rather
than starting over.