That’s how Tim Chartier, an applied mathematician specializing in sports analytics, explains the trend behind one of the NFL’s most debated rituals: the Super Bowl coin toss. On paper, the toss is a ...

On the surface, it seems like the most even prop bet one can make. But Super Bowl history says a little different.

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

Newsweek breaks down the Super Bowl 60 coin toss betting odds and which sportsbooks and prediction markets offer this prop.

The Super Bowl is continuously one of the most watched live events anywhere in the world each year. It's not just a game, it's a production. The commercials, halftime show and prop bets make the ...

Super Bowl Sunday turns even the smallest moments into betting opportunities, and nothing starts earlier than the opening coin toss. What was once a blink-and-you-miss-it formality is now one of the ...

A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results are in fact anything but random. But that’s okay, ...