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Originally Posted by RonCo
I have read many studies that attempt to prove clutch hitting, and never seen one that has bene successful. Do you have a link? I would love to be thrilled.  |
I suppose I should have used my quotes around "verify" instead of "clutch". My point was that they keep all kinds of hitting stats about how a guy hits in the 7th inning, with men on, in a game with a difference of two runs or less, etc. Why couldn't they do this with pitchers?
Maybe they do. I have to confess that I am not a total stat geek. I love baseball strategy to such an extent that I realize the value in stats; I just think it has gone too far in application to "real" baseball.
Now that I'm in sim world, I realize I'm going to need to bone up on stats and that they are essential to more realistic simulation. I guess it's a catch-22; over abundance of stats are detrimental (in my opinion) to real baseball, but essential to simulation.
I guess I'm on the stats bandwagon. Especially, since my interest in "real" baseball has deteriorated to nearly nil for various other reasons.