Play-by-play theater: Revisiting consecutive fouls

Play-by-play theater is a feature (that I just started) where I use the comprehensive play-by-play archive from the past three seasons to hunt for extreme, and possibly silly, events that have occurred in a college basketball game. And who doesn’t like extreme, and possibly silly, events? I do! I mean, I don’t! I don’t not like extreme, and possibly silly, events! On Saturday, “BigH1313” of twitter fame, wondered which game listed in Friday’s consecutive foul table featured ten consecutive fouls by the same team to start the game. The answer: Whoops! There actually wasn’t such a game. Thanks to BigH1313, though, I was forced to recheck my work which determined that the logic used to produce Friday’s table was a bit off. It turns out the forces working against consecutive fouls being called on the same team are even stronger than shown last week. Here’s the corrected table which includes the 200+ additional play-by-plays from games over the weekend. Probability of (x+...