Obit of the Day (Historical): P.L. Travers (1996) Helen Goff first began storytelling to calm her younger sibling when her mother told her one evening that she was going to leave and drown herself. Helen was ten.
While the WNBA season is an action-packed 34 games, many players spend their offseasons continuing to play the game of basketball. Many travel overseas to play in leagues in Russia, Israel, or Italy, just to name a few.
195,177 regular season games were played from 1876â2009, so the number of perfect games to be expected from 1876â2009 is 195,177 * 2 * (1-.3279)27 = 8.55, just half of the 17 observed. One can approach this matter in the opposite way and compute the OBP needed in order to obtain the result of 17 perfect games.