Saturday, August 09, 2008
Winners wear red?
The Boston Red Sox disproved this theory for many years:
Success has a color, and the color is red. In fact, a recent study confirms previous reports that athletes wearing red uniforms win competitions more often than opponents dressed in other colors. Researchers are now hard at work deciphering the mystery behind this puzzling phenomenon.
Glad to hear that the "researchers" are hard at work on this important matter. Again, did anybody ask the Red Sox, or did they spend all their time with the Patriots?
CWCID: Jungle Trader (DEC, to you guys), who reports that when it comes to ties he will wear any color as long as it is red.
3 Comments:
By 
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Sat Aug 09, 10:42:00 PM:
Yes if you use baseball as an example red is not a winner. If you use the NHL as an example the "habs", devils, and detroit, were and are the greatest winning team in the NHL, and the 2 of the most winningest clubs over the last 10 years in the nhl.
The NY football Giants defeated the Patiots in Super Bowl 42 wearing the white jersey with RED lettering and accents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWws022OS-s
But then again this is a German article using soccer as a reference point, did the writers look at who has won the world cup consistently.
Italy has a BLUE uniform, Brazil is GREEN, and Germany/West has a WHITE Uniform.
Who cares what the English Premier/German Bundesliega do, when everyone knows its the world cup that matters.
The redcoats are coming???
DTG
NNJ
By , at
Sun Aug 10, 11:49:00 AM:
The funny thing is that this doesn't seem to be limited to sports. The trend has also been noticed in competitive video games over the last few months. In the video game Team Fortress, when two teams play on perfectly symmetrical levels, meaning that neither team is given an advantage, there is a slightly better than 50-50 chance that the red team will win. And since the game keeps statistics on how well each player does, there is a link to demonstrate it (near the very bottom, marked "Round win percentage by team"): http://www.steampowered.com/status/tf2/tf2_stats.php.
The symmetrical maps are cp_badlands, cp_granary, cp_well, ctf_2fort, ctf_turbine, and ctf_well. These maps require both teams to seize control of neutral objectives; the ones with overwhelming red or blue majorities require one team to defend an objective from the other. There is a lot of debate among players as to why this happens, but the consensus is that bolder, more experienced players tend to choose red.
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Sun Aug 10, 01:11:00 PM:
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I bet statistics also show that nations whose military uniforms include green win battles more often than those who don't.
Of course, this has to do with the fact that many of the countries who include green on their uniforms are from temperate/mild climes and are relatively advanced and not because of any mystical powers associated with green uniforms.
WRT the Team Fortress example, it wouldn't be any different if there were a slight preponderance of blue victories. In fact, the possibility that both numbers of wins would be the same is so astronomical as to be effectively impossible. Ergo, the most likely result is that one side or the other would have a slight lead over the other. If it really had something to do with player skill levels, the disparity should be greater.
