Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Blue: 0.67% * 8 = 5.33%
Green: 0.40% * 3 = 1.20%
Red: 0.25% * 9 = 2.25%
Orange: 0.17% * 5 = 0.85%
TOTAL = 9.63%
I do not believe your math is correct. Let's take a heads-up event with only 2 players. Player A has a 50% chance of winning the event. Player A plays two of these events. He does not have a 50% + 50% (100%!) chance of winning at least one of them! Instead we must take the probability that A wins neither, i.e. losing both in a row which equals (1/2)*(1/2) or 1/4 or 25%. This is the same as the probability of flipping tails twice in a row. The probability then of this *not* happening (i.e. Player A does *not* lose both heads up matches) is 1 - 1/4 which equals 3/4 or 75%.
Revising the above, we then say that the likelihood of, say, DN losing all of the events is:
P(LOSE) = (99.33%^8) * (99.66%^3) * (99.75%^9) * (99.83%^5) = 90.93%.
Therefore the probability of winning one of them is
P(WIN AT LEAST ONE) = 1 - P(LOSE) = 9.07%.
Close to what you had but a bit more accurate.
If we double all the amounts since DN and PI each play then we have a probability of them losing all of the events as:
P(LOSE) = (99.33%^16) * (99.66%^6) * (99.75%^18) * (99.83%^10) = 82.69%
and therefore:
P(WIN AT LEAST ONE) = 1 - P(LOSE) = 17.31%
Or am I mistaken?