As go 18-point home deficits five minutes into the second half, Penn State’s 55-37 hole against Ohio State felt perhaps even more hopeless than the time and score. That owed to the Nittany Lions’ league-worst 5-game losing streak, a visitor that had been looking good all of the young season, and a general directionless vibe that permeated the patchwork club. They not only weren’t clicking, the Lions seemed to be out of ideas. Data geeks love to quote metrics apropos to nothing in particular. One is the floating win probability. It alleges to track the likelihood of a victory as the game progresses. Of course, it can’t measure any emotional quotient specific to the teams it appraises, only the history of like scores of similar teams under previous circumstance. And Ken Pomeroy’s win-probability metric listed Penn State’s chances at that juncture at 2.1%. At the time, I’d have thought it…
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