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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Fewer runners reaching base, faster games

By Tangotiger, 04:59 PM

More data from J-Doug.

I presume perfect games are the fastest of them all. Well, at least half of the game is very fast.

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#1 J-Doug (see all posts) 2011/05/26 (Thu) @ 20:59

Careful though, smaller run differentials also lengthen games, and smaller run differentials are more likely when the run environment declines.

More data on this next week.

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