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Old 12-16-2004, 08:20 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
...you can check the batting stats (including special stats like ISO or RC/27) of a player batting with a count of 1-2 in June against team X.
Will this be more than "stat candy"? That is, will these numbers really give insight into, say, the clutch ability of players or will it all just be the result of random chance? (stat candy is like eye candy: pretty but not really meaningful).

I ask this because many people have failed to find evidence in OOTP of, for instance, players with good clutch ratings really doing better in clutch situations than other players. (Or at least a big enough clutch ability to be seen in the white noise produced by random chance).
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