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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Okay, but how was that record accomplished? What was the schedule like? Was it a divisionally weighted schedule and your club was in a division with weak opponents? If so, that'll pad your record quite nicely.
Again, take a look at your regular season record from that club and pick out at random several different 5 or 7 consecutive game stretches and then analyze the individual and team numbers from them. How do they compare to the season totals? Are they as dominant or do they show more variance?
Personally, if you asked me, I'd say he was due for a bad performance at some point; he can't pitch brilliantly in every game. It's just that he didn't falter until the playoffs, instead of encountering some bad games during the regular season.
What about those six losses you're two top starters had? What were those like?
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I agree with you about players being due for bad performances from time to time, but this happens like clockwork every single season at the exact same time which coincides with the start of the playoffs.
I think you are missing my point. I am fine with getting beat, but the manner with which I am getting beat is very inconsistent with my teams performance. A team that is dominant over the course of 162 games and almost unbeatable at home should not get crushed every single season at home during the playoffs. EVERY SINGLE TIME. I am not talking about this happening once in a blue moon which would be fine and serve to show that upsets can and do happen, I am talking about how this occurs with the timing of a fine swiss watch.
The timing of this is what is bothering me the most, not the fact that I get beat. I went back and compiled my teams home winning pct for 14 seasons and they have compiled a 0.689 home winning pct. Over the course of 14 seasons, my team has compiled a stellar 0.357 home winning pct during the playoffs when they were the top team 12 times. These numbers simply do not add up.
Sudden horrid player performances that occur precisely at the same point of the season year after year after year is more than just being due for a bad swing. Teams that win 113 games do not have many bad stretches and even if they do, they did not occur at home and by lopsided margins all the time.
I am going to try to run the league on auto pilot and see what happens for a few seasons.
-Cork55