Sentences with phrase «coin toss odds»

The coin toss odds were split evenly at -105 coming into the day — obviously, a result of heads or tails is equally likely.

Not exact matches

A toss of a coin does not represent good odds.

The coin toss has 50/50 odds, but many people believe «tails never fails.»

While online sportsbooks are offering the coin toss at even odds for Super Bowl XLVII, handicapping experts know that history suggests «tails» is almost guaranteed to come up.

The coin toss has 50/50 odds, and this year's bucked a recent trend.

As chance would have it, there were 50 - 50 odds the Baltimore Ravens would win the coin toss against the San Francisco 49ers to begin Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday.

These props start with odds on the pregame coin toss and the duration of the national anthem and extend into...

These props start with odds on the pregame coin toss and the duration of the national anthem and extend into the postgame award ceremonies.

It may seem obvious that the odds are 1 in 2, since the chances of any given child being born male are the same as a coin toss.

Yet Graham Allison, assistant secretary of defense in the first Clinton administration and now director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, places the odds of a nuclear strike within the next decade at 51 — 49 — slightly worse than the toss of a coin.

Given the fifty - fifty odds of a coin toss, a subject would on average pocket $ 25 by gambling every time but end up with only $ 20 for consistently keeping the money.

«The odds of a young person learning vital information about equal, safe and enjoyable relationships are no different than the toss of a coin.

From 1962 to 2015, the «true» average excess return — which excludes the impact of valuations on the returns of stocks and adjusts for the return impact of interest rate movements on bonds — fell from 2.8 % to 0.8 % on a rolling 15 - year basis.10 The corresponding 15 - year win rate was halved from 82 % to 43 %, odds not even as good as a coin toss!

Dividends alone can match the coin toss (50 % -50 % odds) constant terminal value rate associated with the S&P 500.

The coin toss rate (with 50 % -50 % odds) is 2.99 %.

I don't know if that still puts the odds in your favour in the sense that chances of outperformance over the long - term are better than a coin toss.

Assuming that your choice is just a coin toss — and you don't have foreknowledge of which investment is going to do well — the odds are you will do worse.

The world needs better odds than a coin toss of avoiding dangerous climate change

I don't know how you would calculate the odds of such a «coincidence» being due to «chance» but you certainly wouldn't do it by a few coin tosses.