A statistics professor might use it in class to lecture on how there is so much naturally occurring variability in things like temperatures, FT percentages, etc. etc. and probably some variability can be random just like flipping a coin or rolling a die will not always produce expected outcomes even if done say 100 or 250 times. E.g., if a coin is flipped 100 times, one would expect heads approximately 50 times. Yet, it might come up 60 times or 38 times, but the more and more coin flips the closer to 50% heads one would expect.
Here is some 'weird' data on opponent's FT percentages (MAC games only):
https://getsomemaction.com/stats.aspx?pa...&conf=true (click on Team Stats, Free Throws).
Yet there is significant difference among the 12 MAC teams on "FT defense." How can that be? How does a team play "FT defense?"
Here is the data for the 2017 - 18 season:
https://getsomemaction.com/stats.aspx?pa...&conf=true
Opponents shot 'lights out' vs us from the FT line. As 9 of the 18 EMU games were at the Convo, that really suggests that the Convo is NOT a bad arena to shoot FTs.
Might add if someone studied say 5 years worth of FTs at each MAC arena (conference games only) we might see clues if any arena half tight or loose rims. With over a 1,000 FT at each arena over that time period, the FT% percentages should converge for all arena.