Quote:
Originally Posted by Henry
Ouch, up to this point I thought this was a discussion, but in one sentence you managed to simply lay down the law that you are right and I am wrong - end of story.
If it's that important you be right, then I respectfully resign with my own opinions.
|
I'm not claiming that I'm right.
I'm pointing out that this is a question on which there is an extensive existing literature (and which has been discussed N times previously on the OOTP forums). In these resources you'll find explanations about why the "standard" arguments for the last-ups advantage have been argued to be mathematically unsound. Anyone is certainly welcome to examine those arguments for themselves.
Simply blindly repeating the arguments without reference to those critiques is not interesting.
Remember this is not a question of "opinion." It's a fundamentally empirical question that can be answered by looking at actual data from actual baseball games.