Pith Number

pith:5L37AYAO

pith:2017:5L37AYAOIIMOBELFPSQX7HMJWX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport

Benjamin S. Baumer, Gregory J. Matthews, Michael J. Lopez

arxiv:1701.05976 v3 · 2017-01-21 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5L37AYAOIIMOBELFPSQX7HMJWX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:29:51.898612Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eaf7f0600e4218e091657ca17f9d89b5e316ae657886d9e5bdc88bb4d25f89b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.05976 · arxiv_version: 1701.05976v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.05976 · pith_short_12: 5L37AYAOIIMO · pith_short_16: 5L37AYAOIIMOBELF · pith_short_8: 5L37AYAO

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5L37AYAOIIMOBELFPSQX7HMJWX \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: eaf7f0600e4218e091657ca17f9d89b5e316ae657886d9e5bdc88bb4d25f89b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5053d482d1aeff3db5ac99dbc8e0014d7da57233323b9ee92e31f531aa803d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-21T03:28:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d55d286593b92517677bdd0d868ed28a3afa4c06e6e1462a71ae73c2dce1110a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.05976",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}