Quote Originally Posted by Evergrey View Post
Because like you said, instead of a 1/4 of winning it turned out to be a 1/5.
The 0 just acted as a ghost-vote with no person behind it.
If the winning roll was, let's say a 23 (on a roll of 1-100), then person nr.1 would've won on a 1/4 with a 25% win rate. But thanks for the "ghost" that means the 2nd person won due to nr1 got shifted lower.
Meaning the results were altered due to the ghost, ending in that all results were tainted.
You can’t assume that if only there was no zero in the mix, the roll would have hit exactly one number higher. It’s much simpler, there were 4 win states and one lose state. All 4 win states had equal chances. If the lose state would have hit, the we just re-roll. There is no taint here… or let me put it this way - the taint was the possibility that the results may hit the fail state.