ESPN's next big addition to their broadcasting product: a tug-of-war visualization that quantifies how likely each team is to win the game, and updates live after each play.
But to the average person, this precision is irrelevant. Minute differences of percentage points mean nothing unless you're doing an elementary school exercise of slapping an inequality symbol between two values.
When advanced statistics crop up in sports broadcasts, it's for two primary reasons: to complement the commentators' natural storytelling, and to serve as advertising for the sports league's cloud computing platform.
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