Hey guys, I'm not good at math so:

Hey guys, I'm not good at math so:
me and my friends were playing random heroes in Overwatch.
Somehow we all got tracer. There's six players on a team, and 21 playable characters for anyone who didn't know
What are the chances of this happening?

1/126

21^6
or if you mean all getting the same character 21^5

It's been a while since I had statistic classes. But itsn't it (1/21)^6, granted it's random?

one over that number of course

21^6 is 857,66,121
are you sure? Holy shit

yes

fucking math nerds, get laid

Thanks you too :^)

do you mean (1 divided by 21) ^ 6?
Sorry just confused by that slash

Cheers user. Glad that at least something of those classes stuck with me

every action you take there's a chance something incredibly unlikely will happen
So incredibly unlikely things are bound to happen.
The chance of getting the same character is just over one in four million.
One in four million is rare odds.
You have better odds of getting a royal flush.
So, congrats I guess.
Should've played the lottery instead.

Yeah, something that stuck with me cause of excel. But I thought it was common knowledge, or do some countries say it like this user does?

It's one divided by twenty one to the power of six for all getting that specific character.
One divided by twenty one to the power of five for all getting the same character.

that comes up as 1.1659615572447307019982867127686e-8
i don't have any clue what that means

it's scientific notation, number is one over 85,7.. million.

1/21^5, which is about

0.00002% chance

Holy fuck
well thanks anons for helping me out
that's fucking insane. More than 85.7 million.

don't forget that (1/21)^6 is assuming that each hero has the same chance for being picked by each player, and each payer chooses independently

your situation is probably more likely than you think ecause tracer is pretty much a cover character/waifu, and if i saw 5/6 tracers on my team i'd heavily consider hitting the 6/6 for shits and gigles

the gamemode we were playing was random heroes, you don't get to choose your hero, it randomly picks one for you

and yes tracer is mai waifu :3

ah, then i guess it's (1/21)^6

:^)

Regarding that the order of the players doesn't matter.

All possible combinations:
P1_P2_P3_P4_P5_P6
21 *21 *21 *21 *21 *21 = 21^6

And you are looking for one of them, so:
1/(21^6)

It's only to the power of 5.
The first character doesn't matter, so it's not counted.