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Originally Posted by Germaniac
It may not happen often, but I think this could happen in real life, too  |
Except, as I previously noted, it hasn't in 1910+ MLB baseball. Largest differential is +8. And only one of those two occurrences involved more than 20 runs.
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Originally Posted by Germaniac
You're doing a great job with your research, but you completely ignore the walks - in the Göteborg/Den Haag game Den Haag scored 31 runs on 32 hits+walks, in the Red Sox/Yankees game the Yankees scored 32 runs on 40 hits+walks
You need the baserunners and you need to execute - this will not happen often, but it can happen, even in real life.
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I'm just looking at the final results as demonstrated by the line score. And a differential of runs minus hits of +9 has not happened at all in 163,085 regular length MLB games. (And it should be noted that the large differentials which do exist are not limited to games in which a club scored 20 or more runs.)
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Originally Posted by Germaniac
Oh, and I should mention - I have four fictional leagues running, these two games happened in a total of about 95,000 games among the four leagues, so it really happens rarely |
I would still be interested in a large scale study examining the runs minus hits differential in OOTP compared to MLB. A club having more runs than hits is very rare in MLB (just 2.87% of games). Is it similarly rare in OOTP too?