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2017 MLB Post Season Long/Small Ball Meter and Innings Tracker

Posted in Baseball, Post Season on October 5, 2017 | 3 Comments »

All data is final as of November 2, 2017. One of baseball’s most often repeated axioms states that, although home runs work just fine in the regular season, once the calendar turns to October, small ball becomes a more effective method for scoring runs. This mantra is proclaimed with such certainty that all who hear […]

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2016 MLB Post Season Long/Small Ball Meter

Posted in Baseball, Post Season on October 9, 2016 | 5 Comments »

All data is updated as of the end of the 2016 World Series. One of baseball’s most often repeated axioms states that, although home runs work just fine in the regular season, once the calendar turns to October, small ball becomes a more effective method for scoring runs. This mantra is proclaimed with such certainty […]

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Can Rangers Ride Texas-Sized Luck into the Post Season?

Posted in Baseball, Post Season on October 6, 2016 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good. Or, in the case of the 2016 Texas Rangers, it’s even better to be good at getting lucky. 2016 Pythagorean Differential (Actual minus Expected Winning Percentage) Source: Baseball-reference.com data, proprietary calculations Based on run differential, the Rangers should have been a .500 team, not the 95-win juggernaut […]

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Misery Loves Company: World Series Beckons Long Suffering Franchises

Posted in Baseball History, MLB, Post Season on October 16, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Baseball’s final four is set, and it features a quartet with one of the longest cumulative championship droughts in LCS history. So, forget the recent talk of dynasties and title defenses. When the champagne flows after this year’s World Series, it will quench the thirst of a long-suffering fan base. Yearly Cumulative World Series Drought […]

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Home Runs Trump Small Ball In Postseason Play

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Post Season, Statistical Analysis on October 13, 2015 | 1 Comment »

The MLB postseason had a power surge on Monday. Yesterday’s four division series games featured a long ball barrage that set a myriad of records, including the most home runs and runs scored in a single day of postseason play. Who said the playoffs were all about small ball? To be fair, before Monday’s outburst, both […]

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Looking for Postseason Patterns: Is October Success Really a Roll of the Dice?

Posted in Baseball, Post Season, Statistical Analysis, Yankees on October 1, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

The major league baseball postseason is often referred to as a “crapshoot”, but is there any method to the madness that ends with a World Series champion? Are teams with a better record more likely to win in October, or is run differential a better barometer of postseason success? What about teams that are hot […]

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Game Over? Olbermann’s World Series Lament Has Lots of Swings and Misses

Posted in Baseball, Culture, Media, Post Season, World Series, Yankees on October 26, 2013 | 4 Comments »

If the World Series is on national television, but “no one” watches, does Tim McCarver make a sound? In a very well presented video essay, ESPN’s Keith Olbermann became the latest to lament the gradual decline in World Series ratings that has occurred over the last four decades. In particular, Olbermann points to the nearly […]

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