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Originally Posted by Izz
So it's really not about going to 110% but rather dropping to 70-80% due to nerves, etc?
Which would mean clutch is not a guy stepping up in a tough situation but rather a guy who doesn't drop his bundle in a tough situation (retains peak performance, in other words).
Nigh impossible to quantify.
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exactly... you can never be more than what you are... through shear will or determination.. simply impossible.. and conclusively proven in so many ways it's ridiculous that it's a quesiton
you can quantify if 1 person has a large enough sample to be confident in what hte results tell you... tough for 1 person.. but league-wide with 100+ years of results, not so difficult for that context. simple understanding of causality and probabilty, really. (real life based on cause and effect, physics, etc and not false perceptions)
e.g. i bet at least one person reading this thinks the ball accelarate as it approaches home plate... just an utter lack of understanding of physics
.. or that ahorizontally thrown ball is "slowed" by gravity... only if it is throwin in opposition to it as described by a vector of force. otherwise it merely pulls it toward th ground at 10m/s^2. when thrown perfectly horizontally (not possible for a human) it will have no effect on the velocity.. drag coefficient will.. the ball is coming into contact with O2 and co2 and wahtever else is floating around between source and target. wind blowing at the source would be relative too.. atoms in motion = force that can be measured. more than stagnant air.
like i asked earlier, how are the overperforming? did their muscles magically grow? did their hand-eye contact magicalyl increase? what caused a physical change to allow them to be "better" in that situation? simply impossible. AND, if it was possible, you better learn how to do it by command because you are not doing your best in other situations, lol. you should flip that switch even when it isn't perceived as a tougher sitatiosn... when in reality all moments of a baseball game are equally important.. placing more importance on what happens last is just in your head.
just as any experiment, you can never reach a 100% theoretical yield. you can be as precise as you want, but under normal circumstances 100% is never attainable.
same with displaying your talent.
did you sleep enough?
family problems?
preparing properly?
are you an anxious person under certain circumstances?
if clutch is defined as the absence of allowing arbitrary things bother you, then it most defintiely exists... if you think it's about overperforming, that is objectively false and thoroughly proven through all sorts of methods and logical experimentation that follow the scientific method.
players can underperform for any multitude of psychological reasons as well as physical reasons. you cannot control phyiscal reasons, but you can train yourself not to be weak-willed spineless yellow-belly
amateur golfers are a great example of this... some get around water and they just crack.. their swing changes they have no confidence, they let nonsense affect how they do things. self-inflicted psychological nonsense. there are some holes wher i make the same %@ing mistake each time.. it's my own fault for lacking confidence and peaking too early.
some people simply don't want the ball at the end of games... psychological and not a physical-related problem. it's a phenomenom in nearly all sports.. some don't want to take the last shot in a basketball game.. they feel blamed for the miss, lol. as if the other 47:59mins of the game didn't matter and equally important.
it's all part of the same whole, unless they start awarding 2 runs for every person that crosses home plate in the 9th inning.. then it's tangibly more important, ... LoL