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RE: Only buy packs from Splinterlands if you get enough for a guaranteed airdrop. Otherwise, buy from the P2P marketplace. (math inside)

in Splinterlands3 years ago

I think my math is right. I said

You can see the most likely outcome is 0 legendaries at ~40%.

Which aligns with your number (I rounded the 0.7%).

Where there might be a miscommunication is me saying

by getting the guarantee, we've increased our expectation by ~0.3 airdrops.

This is about a different metric. Instead of what is the probability of getting none, I'm now asking what is the expected value? The expected value of 299 is just under 1. The expected value of 300 is now ~1.3, a difference of 0.3. (expected value being the summation of the probability times the value across all possible values).