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Are odds like that appropriate for something that is thoroughly non-random?

• Someone 12y ago
  Maybe not, but I bet one can model the results of chess matches as some random noise over the expected probability distribution of "player P against player Q for every pair of players (P,Q)" fairly well. It is surprisingly hard to show that any sports time series is not random. 'Streaks' in baseball, for example, do not really exist according to some statisticians.