"My shit doesnt't work in the playoffs."
The lament of Billy Beane, oft quoted by his supporters, and held against him by his detractors. The notion that once teams reach the playoffs, the outcome is effectively a crapshoot.
If a team had a 50-50 chance of advancing past the first round of the playoffs, then we ought to expect that a team reaching the playoffs four times will advance twice.
So when a team loses in the fourth round of the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year, is it fair to assume that the team has had some fundamental flaw, that it has failed to advance?
This series will explore this question in some detail.
May 7, 2005 8:41 PM
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