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Was you Dad with Patton? Now back to weather. I tried to refine my calculation by determining the percentage of a day the game took. Records show that average time of a game between 1948 and 1955 was two and half hours or 150 minutes. Since there are 1440 minutes in a day that come out to 10.42% of day that game takes up. So, I took that times the average % of precipitation probability for the baseball months in Cleveland. Interestingly, the results pretty much mirror the numbers used for Cleveland in the game. I don't know how historical or mathematically correct that method is but it is interesting to me that it is effectively the same as used in the game. I did try it for the 1920s when the games were significantly shorter and the % of rain probably did decease which seems to me to make sense as it rarely rains all day and all night. I will try some different location and see what happens.
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