Since nobody's mentioned it, I will: Brewers colors and jerseys are awesome. I'm sure even @DonnyMost would approve.
I think in baseball if every batter got a meaningful playoff sample (say 5k at bats), their ops would basically be slightly lower than their regular season average. You're making a judgement off of a tiny tiny sample over the course of a decade or more.
You’d be right… but playoff baseball isn’t ever a large sample size. It’s a different sport in/of itself. Everything is magnified. Everything is managed differently from the 162. Every fan is on the edge of every pitch. Every base runner is as valuable as 5 regular season runs. There’s champagne after every single round (regardless of 1g, 3g, 5g, 7g). So, if any player has the ability to dial it up at any given moment… rather than rely on the law of averages to play out… may have an advantage (that could never really be measures statistically) in this new sport of playoff baseball.
Exactly. If everyone got the same ABs in the playoffs as they’ve gotten in the regular season…it wouldn’t be the playoffs.
Baseball is very unique in how short the playoffs are compared to the regular season. I also only watch football and basketball, and baseball has far greater variance. David ortiz once put up a 0.167 ops in a playoffs, you would never have Durant average 4.2 pts on 15% TS or whatever the equivalent would be in a series.
What i meant was if you just restarted a players career 100 times and they played the same playoff games every year every player would normalize towards their usual ops.
Excited to hear what Jazz Chisholm has to say. Yeah you have to confident but before the playoffs he said Yankees were the best in the AL and they'll stomp on everyone's neck that tries to stop them lol.
What does that have to do with my question? I’m asking do you believe in other sports that players don’t rise or decline in their performance in the playoffs? As in, do you believe Mahomes elevates his game or is that just “small sample size”? Same question with a QB like Dak - does he choke under pressure or is it “small sample size”?
