[Interest] Stat's Interesting

A Numbers Game

From the Met's website, courtesy of Marty Noble. Here's one of the few statistical paragraphs the Mets don't mind reading lately:

Odds are ... Someone with a computer and too much time has calculated this: For the chances to be better than 50-50 that two people in a group will have the same birthday, the group must include merely 22 people. The Mets' 25-man roster doesn't prove it, but it supports it -- twice. Aaron Sele and Carlos Delgado were born on June 25. Billy Wagner and Guillermo Mota were born on July 25. And if the group were increased to 26 and included Rickey Henderson, now with the club as an instructor, there would be a third set of birthday sharers. Henderson and Ruben Gotay were born on Christmas Day.