Is it more important to win the blowouts or the nail-biters?
Time to crunch a few numbers again
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In early April of this season, I pondered the topic of
so bad”.
Since that point, the defeats have kept coming (and coming, and coming, and.) in seemingly all shapes and forms. Blowouts, slim margins, garden-variety L’s the 2021 group has experienced pretty much every way to lose a ballgame over the season’s first two months.
The sharp downturn got me thinking (always a dangerous proposition) about the potential importance of winning the “laughers” or blowouts versus winning one-run games. Do those types of outcomes have an outsized significance in terms of overall winning percentage at season’s end?