So it happened, Red Sox won the world series.
Again, the idea of winning and losing streaks, curses just always seem to find its way into games.

On my desk is a paper, Heuristics as beliefs and behaviors: The adaptiveness of the ‘hot hand’ (Bruce D. Burns) which discusses the belief in a player having a “hot hand” (likely to score) in a game of basketball.

Update: And at MIT they did their part.

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