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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
I would point out from a realism perspective in professional baseball games are sometimes less than 9 innings long: the minor leagues have long used a rule which states that both games of a regular, single-admission doubleheader are only 7 innings long. (In earlier years the rule was often the first game was 9 innings and only the second game reduced to 7 innings.)
A regularly scheduled single game in the minors leagues can also be reduced to 7 innings if prior to that game a suspended game is completed if that suspended game had been suspended before 5 innings had been played.
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I think most are aware of shorter games as a small percentage of games played in various leagues. Not sure how that applies.
The question was asked in terms of all or nearly all games being shorter in a given league That would change strategy, roster composition and player utilization significantly depending on what type of run scoring environment was applied.
One would actually have to play hundreds/thousands of 6 inning games over a period of time to get sufficient results and somehow record how certain strategies and player utilization works. It actually sounds like an interesting experiment.