Problem 764. Soccer - TOTO

Created by Reza Ahmadzadeh

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How many different outcomes are there in a soccer-TOTO with n games?

For each game there are three results: win - loss - equal. So for example with 2 games between team A and B, we can have different outcomes:

A win(1), A loss(-1), A draw(0) for first game and A win(1), A loss(-1), A draw(0) for the next game. Outcomes are like this:

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Aurelien Queffurust on 13 Jun 2012

What is SOCCER-TOTO?
Can you please give a link or an example about this problem? Thanks

Richard Zapor on 13 Jun 2012

The question appears to ask for the number of potential outcomes of N soccer games where each game may be either a W, L, or T. Thus N=1 has 3 outcomes. The reality of soccer says the true number of expected outcomes is 1, with a total goal sum of 0, ALL 0-0 Ties.

Aurelien Queffurust on 15 Jun 2012

Thanks Richard.

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