Note the position of the losses. Have each individual student systematically construct a sample space on paper listing all the possible ways a team can win a 7-game series. A teacher might want to mention there are 35 possible ways. Or maybe a teacher would rather leave it more open-ended. If this activity is done at the start of a unit, a teacher might want to have groups of students work together and try to list as many ways as possible.
Students use fundamental counting principles to compute combinations and permutations.