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Fallacy of the transitive property in football

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MililaniBuckeye

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    • So many people use the transitive property (A beat B who beat C who beat D, so A is better than/will beat D) to justify their rankings as to which team is better, or sometimes, to predict who will win a football game. In many instances it just doesn't work. For example, East Carolina is playing Cincinnati at this moment. Using the transitive property prior to the game, you'd expect East Carolina to win, because:

    East Carolina smoked Virginia Tech
    Virginia Tech beat Ohio State
    Ohio State smoked Cincinnati

    Right, well as of this moment, Cincinnati currently leads East Carolina 31-20 at half.

    There have been other such comparisons made here on BP, but with the search function not working right now I figured I'd start a thread on the subject for others to post similar faulty transitive-property comparions.
     
    MililaniBuckeye said:
    So many people use the transitive property (A beat B who beat C who beat D, so A is better than/will beat D) to justify their rankings as to which team is better, or sometimes, to predict who will win a football game. In many instances it just doesn't work. For example, East Carolina is playing Cincinnati at this moment. Using the transitive property prior to the game, you'd expect East Carolina to win, because:

    East Carolina smoked Virginia Tech
    Virginia Tech beat Ohio State
    Ohio State smoked Cincinnati

    Right, well as of this moment, Cincinnati currently leads East Carolina 31-20 at half.

    There have been other such comparisons made here on BP, but with the search function not working right now I figured I'd start a thread on the subject for others to post similar faulty transitive-property comparions.
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    Why is the function still down anyways?
     
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    The ACC managed to accomplish this feat by mid-October:

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