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Originally Posted by OrangeP47
I mean, to be fair as a stats guy, this may be obvious too but I feel like I can point it out. Just as not everyone can win, not everyone can lose. That's just how the math works in a sport with no ties. If, theoretically we got to a point where one team had literally all the talent and the rest of the teams were rostered with 3rd graders, the stats wouldn't actually be that bad because there'd be parity among the 3rd graders haha.
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And the thing about the CBO that has made most of the difference has been the pitching staffs, I believe. On many of the teams with losing records, especially those drafting in the Top 5, their best pitcher is maybe better than the good teams' 4th starter, if that. Well, I still have not figured out how to balance the talent where top pitching is getting drafted at the top of the draft. For the most part, the top position players, including an influx of power-hitting 1B keep getting drafted high and the top pitchers are getting drafted late 1st, thus repeating the cycle of the worst teams having no pitching staff at the CBO or minor-league level. They end up having to trade good CBO positional players for maybe pitching prospects.