(Should have crossposted this when I posted it to 

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Lots of fun statistics on opening days in MLB. More about correlation than causation, but there's some fun stuff:

When teams won the first game of the season over the past decade, they’ve gone on to have a winning season about 60 percent of the time. When they lose the first game, that frequency drops below 40 percent.

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(Should have crossposted this when I posted it to ~Stacker_Sports , but forgot; my bad.)

Lots of fun statistics on opening days in MLB. More about correlation than causation, but there's some fun stuff:

> When teams won the first game of the season over the past decade, they’ve gone on to have a winning season about 60 percent of the time. When they lose the first game, that frequency drops below 40 percent.

Great data visualization, too.