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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY
Because funny things happen in small samples. You're comparing your 40 games to approximately 2,430 games played in 2017. Trends that appear over very long stretches of time -- in this case, a full season -- are not always going to be readily apparent in tiny samples -- in this case, 1.6 percent of a full season.
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Agreed.
And, without knowing anything about your team or your opponents, in 40 games it is possible that some specific skills on your team and/or your opponents teams in this small sample size made the numbers skew even more. In other words, did you possibly face a greater than average number of good groundball pitchers during this stretch and/or teams with very good dp combos up the middle? Or is your team possibly more prone to hitting ground balls and do you have several slow runners? I think small sample size is likely the main culprit but it would only take a few other small factors working in conjunction to make the numbers look more extreme within a small sample size.