Re:Apple and Major League Baseball to Offer “Friday Night Ba...
by throwaway1777 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:13PM
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If the season were shorter the tactics would be very different and what you said might not be true anymore. For instance you might only need 2 starting pitchers. If you can have Scherzer pitch half your games that’s gonna be very different than having him pitch 1/4 of your games. There’s also the playoffs to consider as a case study. There you have far fewer games so the strategy is very different, and arguably the games are more interesting.
Re:Apple and Major League Baseball to Offer “Friday Night Ba...
by slg on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:04PM
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I don't think there is much reason to think that would happen. We don't see evidence of that in the regular season as Scherzer's career record is 190-97. We don't see evidence of that in the postseason when even the best teams will generally lose a few games. And we don't see evidence of that in baseball history when in the past a team's best pitcher might start up to half of that team's games. Randomness is just inherent to the game of baseball.
There is and old baseball saying that no matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
40 games simply wouldn't be enough to figure out which teams are actually good.