Let's Really Win Two: the 2017 Postseason thread

[SKO]

DPD, but also the lack of salary cap in MLB is somewhat mitigated by baseball players generally peaking/declining earlier and harder than NHL players, thus make FA a bad place to buy wins, and also the fact that there's nothing in hockey quite as unpredictable as pitching variance and injury.

[Quality Start Machine]

DPD, but also the lack of salary cap in MLB is somewhat mitigated by baseball players generally peaking/declining earlier and harder than NHL players, thus make FA a bad place to buy wins, and also the fact that there's nothing in hockey quite as unpredictable as pitching variance and injury.

You're right, nobody ever gets hurt playing hockey.

And there's no such thing as streaky goalies.

[SKO]

DPD, but also the lack of salary cap in MLB is somewhat mitigated by baseball players generally peaking/declining earlier and harder than NHL players, thus make FA a bad place to buy wins, and also the fact that there's nothing in hockey quite as unpredictable as pitching variance and injury.

You're right, nobody ever gets hurt playing hockey.

And there's no such thing as streaky goalies.

Didn't say that hockey players don't get hurt, but pitching is such a key part of building any MLB team long term, and no position on earth gets hurt with more regularity than MLB pitchers.

Again, I'm not saying hockey playoffs aren't somewhat random. They are certainly more random than the NBA, I'd even disagree with that Harvard study and say they're less predictable than the NFL. In the NFL you can usually pick superbowl winners come playoff time with a certain degree of success just by asking who has the best combo of QB and pass rush.

But they are not, by any kind of evidence, "more random" than baseball playoffs. At this point the onus is on you to show me how they are. I've given far more evidence that they aren't.

[SKO]

Also, shit, when you factor in a hockey playoff field of 16 vs an MLB field of 8-10, the fact that it has produced the same number of unique champions in that time frame is also evidence it's playoffs aren't more random. If MLB had 16 teams every year there'd really be chaos.

Shit for all of the talk of the President's Cup curse the team that won that has won the Cup more often (25%) than the team that has best overall record in MLB has won the World Series (23%) since the year that started.

[Quality Start Machine]

Also, shit, when you factor in a hockey playoff field of 16 vs an MLB field of 8-10, the fact that it has produced the same number of unique champions in that time frame is also evidence it's playoffs aren't more random. If MLB had 16 teams every year there'd really be chaos.

Shit for all of the talk of the President's Cup curse the team that won that has won the Cup more often (25%) than the team that has best overall record in MLB has won the World Series (23%) since the year that started.

Every playoff game that goes to OT is sudden death. It's like having both teams batting in the bottom of the 9th.

[CT III]

Also, shit, when you factor in a hockey playoff field of 16 vs an MLB field of 8-10, the fact that it has produced the same number of unique champions in that time frame is also evidence it's playoffs aren't more random. If MLB had 16 teams every year there'd really be chaos.

Shit for all of the talk of the President's Cup curse the team that won that has won the Cup more often (25%) than the team that has best overall record in MLB has won the World Series (23%) since the year that started.

Every playoff game that goes to OT is sudden death. It's like having both teams batting in the bottom of the 9th.

This argument is dumb and I hate it.

[SKO]

Also, shit, when you factor in a hockey playoff field of 16 vs an MLB field of 8-10, the fact that it has produced the same number of unique champions in that time frame is also evidence it's playoffs aren't more random. If MLB had 16 teams every year there'd really be chaos.

Shit for all of the talk of the President's Cup curse the team that won that has won the Cup more often (25%) than the team that has best overall record in MLB has won the World Series (23%) since the year that started.

Every playoff game that goes to OT is sudden death. It's like having both teams batting in the bottom of the 9th.

I mean, that's neat. Playoff hockey is exciting. The better team still tends to win those games more often than the better team wins MLB playoff games. If a playoff field of 16 teams every produces the same number of unique champions, repeat champions etc. as a playoff field of 8 teams every year there's no way to claim the 16 team field is somehow "more random." It's decidedly less.

[Bort]

Also, shit, when you factor in a hockey playoff field of 16 vs an MLB field of 8-10, the fact that it has produced the same number of unique champions in that time frame is also evidence it's playoffs aren't more random. If MLB had 16 teams every year there'd really be chaos.

Shit for all of the talk of the President's Cup curse the team that won that has won the Cup more often (25%) than the team that has best overall record in MLB has won the World Series (23%) since the year that started.

Every playoff game that goes to OT is sudden death. It's like having both teams batting in the bottom of the 9th.

This argument is dumb and I hate it.

[CBStew]

Also, shit, when you factor in a hockey playoff field of 16 vs an MLB field of 8-10, the fact that it has produced the same number of unique champions in that time frame is also evidence it's playoffs aren't more random. If MLB had 16 teams every year there'd really be chaos.

Shit for all of the talk of the President's Cup curse the team that won that has won the Cup more often (25%) than the team that has best overall record in MLB has won the World Series (23%) since the year that started.

Every playoff game that goes to OT is sudden death. It's like having both teams batting in the bottom of the 9th.

Who is on first?

[Andy]

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[Armchair_QB]

What happened?

[Saul Goodman]

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If you're just joining us, they did not, in fact, win two.

[Quality Start Machine]

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