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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
Perhaps. I am more inclined to attribute the Braves win to the adage of good pitching defeating good hitting.
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I'm glad you brought this up. Here's an article that, if you read it and think about its conclusions, is that this is NOT true.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-surp...-in-big-spots/
Basically, this article says bad pitchers are worse in the post season, but not as bad as you think. It also shows good pitchers get worse in the post season, but are still bette than bad pitchers. At least I think that is a fair summary.
The article doe not talk about hitters in any way, however if bad pitchers are worse and good pitchers are also worse, does that not mean all hitters, as a group, do better in the post season? And if that's true, doesn't it mean hitters over pitchers in the playoffs?
So good pitching does not really exist in the playoffs, so it can't stop good hitting.
So I'm puzzled by this statistical analysis.