All-different win totals in a 32-team round robin
Question
Thirty-two teams play a round robin, so every pair of teams meets exactly once, and each game is a fair coin flip independent of all others. The probability that no two teams finish with the same number of wins can be written with integers and as large as possible. Find .
Short answer
. There are games. Distinct win counts must be , which forces a strict ranking where each team beats exactly those below it; each of the orderings gives one outcome. So the probability is and .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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