The law of averages is actually a huge misconception that trips up tons of people, especially gamblers. What you’re thinking of is more like the Law of Large Numbers, which is a real mathematical principle. Here’s the deal: each coin flip is completely independent – the coin doesn’t have memory of previous flips. So if you get 99 tails in a row, the 100th flip is still exactly 50/50 heads or tails. The reason we don’t see 100 tails in a row isn’t because some mystical force prevents it, but because the probability is astronomically low – about 1 in 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376.