Guess the 2019 Boston Marathon Registration Cutoff” Contest

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Guess the cutoff time for the 2019 Boston Marathon It’s that time of year again, Boston Marathon registration time, when runners all over the world obsess over whether their mBQ (maybe Boston Qualifying) time is fast enough to get them in the race. The B.A.A. uses a “rolling admission” schedule, which allows the fastest athletes

What YOU Thought the Boston Marathon Cutoff Will Be

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Registration for the 2019 Boston Marathon opened yesterday. We got 377 entries in our “Guess the 2019 Boston Marathon Registration Cutoff” Contest. Here’s what you (the collective “you”) thought the cutoff would be:   For the purposes of the distribution chart, I grouped the entries into 10-second bins. The distribution has an unexpected gap in

Mathematical Runner’s Prediction for the 2019 Boston Marathon Cutoff

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There’s still time to enter our “Guess the 2019 Boston Marathon Registration Cutoff” Contest! Beat our prediction, win bragging rights. Be one of the top three entries, win actual, real prizes! Entries close Sept. 9. Predicting the Boston Marathon qualifying cutoff times is a fool’s game. There’s too much uncertainty to predict the cutoff to