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here's the thing:
they don't get better... the others shrink.
you cannot improve your hand eye coordination with will. simply not possible.
cuase and effect... what is the cause for that effect? magic? dna changes? muscle grows? this isn't the Grinch who stole christmas.
if you want to say some people let their nerves get to them and others do not.. this can be a cause and effect i can get behind. Most mlb players get over the nerves after playing in front of 40,000 booing or cheering fans pretty quickly.
you can always underperform for any multitude of reasons (sleep, personal problems, effort, nervers etc etc), but overperforming is just small sample luck.
as long as "clutch" doesn't mean they are better than normal, i'm okay with it.
if you think barry bonds wasn't "clutch" because of a handful of playoff games, you are nuts 48 games is nothing.
if you think the buffalo bills on the late 80's or early 90's "choked" you are nuts. (well the kicker never played again, lol. Norwood?). they just were the 'lesser' team all but that first year. they should have beat the giants with a backup QB.
1/10 they lose all those super bowls in a row? even if 1%, not so incredulous that it can happen. those were great teams with great players, and it's unsubstantiated nonsense to clalm they are failures in any way.
the best team doesn't often win the championship.. .the more layers of playoffs, the less likely it becomes.. and that's assuming a fair and balanced scheduel -- which the NFL can never have due to so few games played. even MLB schedule best record only has a ~40% confidence they are the best team too and that's 162 games with less parity than the NFL.
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