[HRBaker]

One thing that is hardly EVER talked about is the fact that single game "luck" is a HUGE determining factor - so huge that team talent sometimes simply doesn't count.

If you took two EXACT teams and played them against each other 20 times, the results could be expressed by a bell curve. If everything is equal (including luck) each team will win 10 games. If one team gets lucky, it will win 15 games. In this scenario, someone would scream bloody murder that they were being targeted through some secret code in the game... but it's simply probabilities.

That said, you do this 20 game experiment 100 times, that represents 2,000 games, and the split would be pretty much 50/50 - BUT - there will be some of those 100 runs where one team won 15 games, maybe even 20.

It's an old cliche', but that's why there are 150+ games in a baseball schedule... an attempt to dilute the effect of small number results.

One more thing I have to point out; suggesting there is some secret code behind the scenes that targets "anyone" for "any" reason isn't going to get much traction among the rest of us. Some of us have been here for almost the entire trip, and although we raise our voices complaining about various things we don't like, we KNOW the development team's ONLY goal this past 25 years has been to represent the game of baseball as accurately as possible. Period.