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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Aristotle, Casablanca, and Win Probability?

By Tangotiger, 12:55 PM

Very cool article by Colin.

Because in the narrative, clutch hitting does have to exist. If you’re trying to boil a ballgame down to a simple narrative… then you are boiling the game down to a handful of plays, and thus making those plays stand in for the entire game. You create heroes and villains, successes and failures, tragedies and comedies. In the narrative, you have to have clutch. Have to.

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