Good analysis over at OTM--"Is It Important to Go Into the Playoffs Hot?"
Not that I necessarily agree with the author's conclusion, but the compilation of stats is great!
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Clutch
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It too me a moment to figure out
…which team was “MFY”, until I woke up to the fact it is a Red Sox blog.
That said, it sounds like someone’s a little sensitive that his team is re-enacting the final scene from “Camile” nightly on the playing field.
"He's not a Rhodes Scholar to begin with''~Theo Epstein, talking about Papelbon
by George Kaplan on Oct 1, 2009 9:52 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Meh. Garbage assortment of non-random data.
For starters, how many games, over the course of the final 20 (to pick but one example) were necessary to win in order to garner a playoff slot? When did the team clinch? Was there any home field advantange at stake even after they clinched? Were there makeup games involved that required extraordinary road trips and/or an extraordinary number of games to be played in some condnsed time frame?
The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do. - Gene Mauch
by Stirrups on Oct 1, 2009 4:02 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
True
I’d also be more interested in how the winning teams played over the final weekend of the season—did they go into the postseason off a win or off a loss?
RIP Nick Adenhart.
"When the Babe tries to call his shot, I hope Nick puts one in his ear."
--RallyMonkey5
by Clutch on Oct 1, 2009 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Worthless
not only did it entirely neglect the national league’s performance in the time frame, but it completely neglects the fact that frequently the teams most fit to win a world series are generally the best teams, and the best teams are generally the ones that clinch the earliest, and ergo spend the most time in the last month fielding AAA teams.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Oct 3, 2009 12:09 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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