re: Some basic numbers about CWS game 1 losers since 1995

so historically speaking basically there's a 12.5% chance (5/40) that one of the four teams that lost their first game make it to the finals, but any one team (LSU) in this case there's a 6.25% chance of making it to the finals (5/80)

again just based on these #'s there were 80 teams to lose their first game in the last 20 years and 5 made it to the finals