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Originally Posted by BPS
Batters, pitchers, and fielders all have clutch abilities.
But, you could simply add a variable "clutch ability" for each batter, C, that affected outcomes only in pressure situations. C would be distributed over batters with a mean zero and a "relatively small" variance.
If you ran a series of seasons where players typically played only a small number of years, and you did this one time, the combination of randomness and small sample size would make it very difficult to determine (as an outsider who didn't know whether C existed or not) whether players had clutch abilities or not.
As I said, it is very simple to add clutch ability and very difficult to determine whether clutch ability existed just looking at the data.
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This "clutch situations" idea has been the core of much of the studies done in real life data and generally found to not be helpful in finding clutch performance. Hence all that one has been able to say is that if clutch performance exists it's either too small to be found in the results or is not manifested in clutch situations as we have defined them in the past.