One of the four teams fighting for the Draft Lottery at this point in the season, the Colorado Avalanche is having an even worse season this year than last year with a league low 27 points in 40 games. Many losses are in the record books this season, which asks the question... Should the Colorado Avalanche be considered a cold and streaky team?HypothesesNull: The Avalanche are not a cold, streaky team and their losses are not affected by the loss before. (More than 5%) Alternative: The Avalanche are cold and steaky and have losses that are affected by the previous loss. (Less than 5%) How this experiment worksWe find all the totals of wins and losses for all 40 games this season and put them in order. Then we find how many occur with three in a row since there is a total less than 50 (we would search for 5 or more with 50). After that, we look for how many times a streak of 3 more would occur in this way and see if it is special to this team or not. SimulationHere's what we entered in the information part to find streaks of 3 or more losses: SSSSSFSFFSFFSFFSFSFSSFFFFFFSFSFFFFFSFFFFFSF 393/400= 98.25%, a large value. ConclusionIt is plausible to believe that the Colorado Avalanche are NOT on a cold streak. Interesting... An avalanche that is not cold for a long time... hmmm... must be some issues with the environment in Colorado...
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