203 same team that won the overtime coin toss; the teams that lost the overtime coin toss went on to win 208 games. The NFL overtime rules were changed in 2012 to be more fair, and as of this writing, there have been 121 games since 2012 with winners decided in overtime. 67 of the teams that won in overtime also won the overtime coin toss. These results are shown in Table 5-1 on the next page. Overtime in National Football League (NFL) football games begin with a coin toss. The team winning this coin toss has the option of receiving the ball or kicking the ball. Between 1974 and 2011, there were 477 overtime games, and 17 of them ended in a tie after overtime play. Here, we consider the 460 overtime games that did not end in a tie. Among those 460 games that were decided in overtime, 252 were won by the Is the NFL Overtime Coin-Toss Rule Fair? CHAPTER PROBLEM 5-1 Probability Distributions 5-2 Binomial Probability Distributions 5-3 Poisson Probability Distributions 5 DISCRETE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS continued
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