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Originally Posted by Killing Time
Yeah. How do you prove a negative?
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That would depend upon how persnickety you are. When statistics show me that the odds of something happening are the same as random chance, that proves to my satisfaction that there is no cause and effect.
The poster who used to exhaust himself explaining and re-explaining to Styx how various Sabremetrics worked and what they meant would carefully qualify that just because the chances that something happened are the same as if they happened by chance, that doesn't mean that they didn't happen on purpose… just that you can't prove they did happen on purpose.