--- title: Round-robin (with Claude) | daily.dev description: A statistician recounts solving a probability puzzle from the Fiddler column about expected wins of the best-record team in a round-robin league, first... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/round-robin-with-claude--ji8hs0kpe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Round-robin (with Claude) | daily.dev og:description: A statistician recounts solving a probability puzzle from the Fiddler column about expected wins of the best-record team in a round-robin league, first... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/round-robin-with-claude--ji8hs0kpe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ji8Hs0kpe.png og:image:alt: Round-robin (with Claude) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Round-robin (with Claude) **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A statistician recounts solving a probability puzzle from the Fiddler column about expected wins of the best-record team in a round-robin league, first attempting closed-form solutions himself, then using Claude to help with expectation formulas and to run a 400-million-repetition Monte Carlo simulation for the 30-team version. A Normal approximation exploiting inter-team correlation gives roughly 85 expected wins, closely matching the simulation. The author reflects that LLMs like Claude save coding time without eliminating the intellectual fun of solving math puzzles. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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