tinnitus photography wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:57 pm

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 17, 2023 4:04 pm

whatwouldcooleydo? wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 17, 2023 3:55 pm

This is my oldest World Series memory.

mine is watching Yaz pop up to end the '75 series against the Reds.

beantownbubba wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:27 am

Zip City wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:03 am

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:13 pm

The baseball playoffs have pretty much always had this "issue." It's just been magnified by the three-game series. The point is to crown a champion, not to determine who the best team is. If that was the goal, the original playoff format is the best but that's never coming back. A lot of people don't realize how small of a sample a 3/5/7 game series is and how much variance there is in baseball in general. It is what it is.

Correct. If you wanted the champ to be the best team, you would simply hand the trophy to the team with the best record (a la Premier League)

I'm not so sure. Clearly correct that one solution is to give the trophy to the team that finishes first at the end of the season but isn't it equally consistent with "let's crown a champion, not determine who's best" theory to pick the playoff participants randomly out of a hat? So that theoretically only the worst teams might be participating? Is that a good way to determine a champion? Any system is going to have weaknesses (and the college football playoffs continuing search for a legit playoff format is further evidence of that) but I don't think the "crown a champion" theory solves any of them. It seems to me that at most, it would be justification for a smaller pool of playoff teams with the best records, but it's being used here to support, if not quite the opposite, something quite different. To me the questions of the best theory and the best structure remain very open.

Clams wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:24 pm

Still reeling from the Phillies failure to win games 6 and 7 (which I attended) at home and losing the NLCS to the DBacks. Oh the joys of being a lifelong Philly sports fan.

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:31 pm

Clams wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:24 pm

Still reeling from the Phillies failure to win games 6 and 7 (which I attended) at home and losing the NLCS to the DBacks. Oh the joys of being a lifelong Philly sports fan.

If it makes you feel better, the Brewers have never made the World Series in my lifetime and didn't make the playoffs until I was 24. They were promptly dispatched by the 2008 World Series champion Phillies.

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:31 am

Livid that Raul Mondesi did not have a 6+ WAR season with the Dodgers and I ruined my grid today because of it. Too cute but that's the fun of the game (he did have a 5.7 season).

whatwouldcooleydo? wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:05 pm

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:31 am

Livid that Raul Mondesi did not have a 6+ WAR season with the Dodgers and I ruined my grid today because of it. Too cute but that's the fun of the game (he did have a 5.7 season).

I might as well quit playing because I’m not ever gonna top today’s performance- 9/9 with rarity score of 13

beantownbubba wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 28, 2023 6:49 pm

whatwouldcooleydo? wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:05 pm

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:31 am

Livid that Raul Mondesi did not have a 6+ WAR season with the Dodgers and I ruined my grid today because of it. Too cute but that's the fun of the game (he did have a 5.7 season).

I might as well quit playing because I’m not ever gonna top today’s performance- 9/9 with rarity score of 13

Heck yeah. Go out on top (and what a top that is). It's not like you need that last $30 million anyway.

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:28 pm

The award ones like that are great because so many people seem to just take the obvious players.

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:28 pm

The award ones like that are great because so many people seem to just take the obvious players.

Zip City wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:50 pm

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:28 pm

The award ones like that are great because so many people seem to just take the obvious players.

NL MVP that I go to a lot is Terry Pendleton.

beantownbubba wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 25, 2023 11:40 am

beantownbubba wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:27 am

Zip City wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:03 am

Correct. If you wanted the champ to be the best team, you would simply hand the trophy to the team with the best record (a la Premier League)

I'm not so sure. Clearly correct that one solution is to give the trophy to the team that finishes first at the end of the season but isn't it equally consistent with "let's crown a champion, not determine who's best" theory to pick the playoff participants randomly out of a hat? So that theoretically only the worst teams might be participating? Is that a good way to determine a champion? Any system is going to have weaknesses (and the college football playoffs continuing search for a legit playoff format is further evidence of that) but I don't think the "crown a champion" theory solves any of them. It seems to me that at most, it would be justification for a smaller pool of playoff teams with the best records, but it's being used here to support, if not quite the opposite, something quite different. To me the questions of the best theory and the best structure remain very open.

The Athletic weighs in:

"I do hope we can fully abandon the push from earlier in the playoffs to change the format. Yes, both World Series participants are Wild Card teams, but this was tremendous baseball. Two league championship series going seven games. Two teams absolutely earning every and Rangers not deserving? Bollocks to anyone saying no."

whatwouldcooleydo? wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 06, 2023 7:07 pm

Great article. Worked around the paywall so anyone should be able to read this

https://archive.ph/bDZBu

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:19 pm

Brewers/Cubs will take on an added importance for the next little bit. I'm ready for the '24 season to get here.

Met a Mets fan in the merch line at Pappy + Harriets on Sunday night and he thanked me for Counsell. Whoops.

whatwouldcooleydo? wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:05 pm

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:31 am

Livid that Raul Mondesi did not have a 6+ WAR season with the Dodgers and I ruined my grid today because of it. Too cute but that's the fun of the game (he did have a 5.7 season).

I might as well quit playing because I’m not ever gonna top today’s performance- 9/9 with rarity score of 13