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Snooker maths

Postby cueeye

In a 16 player tournament with a random unseeded draw, what is the percentage (%) chance of say Trump & O'Sullivan being drawn in the same half of the draw?

Re: Snooker maths

Postby chengdufan

Once one player is in the draw, there are 15 possible positions in the draw for the other player to be placed. 7 are on the same side as player one, and the remaining 8 are on the other side.
So it's a 7/15 chance they will be on the same side of the draw, or 47%.