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1st or 2nd?

6th July 2008
Should you choose to go first or second in a penalty shoot-out? Or serve first rather than receive in a grudge tennis match? Tim Harford has a neat piece in today’s Financial Times which unearths some research which seems to suggest a fairly decisive advantage for teams that win the toss of a coin and opt to take the first shot in a shoot-out! Unless of course they crack under the pressure!
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