I think the key will be the team that leads after nine innings will have the best chance to win games in October.
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MLB 2018 Playoffs |OT| It Took A Little Extra To Get Here
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I think the key will be the team that leads after nine innings will have the best chance to win games in October.
i was just sharing my opinion, no need to be upset. and since when are we not allowed to question moves? were the Padres not in a better position to evaluate Eric Hosmer than us as well?
how is it irrelevant? looking at who outscored the opposition by more though 162 is a pretty good way to get a good idea who the most powerful team is. a team is ultimately in lost control of sequencing than they are pure production.
Because the Dodgers aren't playing the Padres and the Brewers aren't playing the Mets.
A more direct way to see who's the more powerful team and who has the advantage in a best of 7 series would be to look at the actual head to head matchups, which would give the Dodgers the edge. Stuff like run differential is a decent indicator at predicting who will be in the playoffs and who's the strongest team going into the playoffs, but looking at it for analysis of a head to head matchup is pretty worthless.
any of these 4 teams could easily win the WS., but this is some extremely arbitrary cherry picking you're doing to dismiss 162 games worth of performance.
man I dont understand why this thread is so incapable of understanding simple logical analysis. resetera is such a progressive place, but the mlb threads are always stuck in the 90s.
Logical analysis would be to do more direct head to head analysis of the two teams and how they match up directly against each other since this is a head to head best of 7 series. There does come a point where supplementary statistics do become pointless, run differential being one of them. I'm not trying to discredit the value of some of those bits of knowledge overall but I think in this scenario it's a pretty pointless thing to bring up.
I get my analysis from baseball's biggest stars. Like Harold Reynolds. He tells it like it is.
you seriously think head to head analysis is a thing that matters in this sport? this is not basketball. baseball is a sport of individual at-bats that add up to produce a team result. head to head analysis in baseball basically just amounts to "which team is a better?"
i'm rooting for the brewers (kind of), but i think the dodgers have a better team, based on tons of evidence that is readily available. not only did they outscore the opposition by way more than the brewers duing the season, but they did it while facing ridiculous adversity with the injuries to seager/turner/kershaw early on. the brewers had a string if injuries early on, but it was mostly replacement type players who didn't really have an impact. the brewers were also extremely good/fortunate in 1-run games, which is a big part of their overall record. a lot of that is their dominant bullpen, but a lot of it is unsustaunable sequencing. this is based on decades of evidence that shows thing like this are ultimately an unsustainable skill.
again, none of this means shit if the lesser team plays better for like 6 games. that's baseball.
John Smoltz told me baserunning is the best so obviously analytics are bullshit.
In reality short series are basically a crapshoot and the existing statistics from the regular season aren't going to give you a tremendous clue as to a series outcome.
yep, this basically sums up the mlb playoffs. enjoy the ride.
I mean the Padres swept the season series with the Mariners but are obviously worse than them. And the Reds owned the Dodgers but nobody would argue the Reds are better than them. If you only play like 4-7 games anyone can win. Run differential is useful for plotting out wins over a statistically large sample. It doesn't have any bearing on whether Team A will beat Team B.
It's the same way I was flabbergasted when Dodgers fans would get really angry when they would lose literally any game to the Padres as though they should actually expect to run the table against every inferior team even though that is not how baseball has ever worked and why they play such a large number of games.
It's the same way I was flabbergasted when Dodgers fans would get really angry when they would lose literally any game to the Padres as though they should actually expect to run the table against every inferior team even though that is not how baseball has ever worked and why they play such a large number of games.
Brewers have never won it. so I root hardest for them.
Dodgers haven't won in 30 years, they get second share of rooting energy.
Astros building a small dynasty in the heart of Texas would be good for baseball
the other team can eat a bag of dicks.
Dodgers haven't won in 30 years, they get second share of rooting energy.
Astros building a small dynasty in the heart of Texas would be good for baseball
the other team can eat a bag of dicks.
I don't mind when the Dodgers drop a game or two here and there to the Padres
When they get swept at home by the fucking Reds though, yeah, I'm angry about it lol
Anyone but the Red Sox is fine.
Former divisional rival, current divisional rival, Yankees West > Red Sox
We playing the drinking game where everyone downs one every time Smoltz implies baseball sucks? I have a fresh case and a few bottles. Should be enough to get me through the fourth.
This is why I'll have the game on mute and listen to music instead. I don't want to die.
I can't get the image of Dave Roberts saying "It turns today" out of my head, back in April/May when they were playing a series against the Dbacks and struggling.
Please eliminate them swiftly Brewers.
Please eliminate them swiftly Brewers.
Corey Hart Jersey sighting in front of the guy pounding the natty lite in the Yount powder blues. Beauties.
What's with the idiot in the Marlins gear behind home plate. Sideways visor? He's gone now maybe got kicked out.
