THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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An in-depth analysis of: The sacrifice bunt, batter/pitcher matchups, the intentional base on balls, optimizing a batting lineup, hot and cold streaks, clutch performance, platooning strategies, and much more.
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Monday, April 12, 2010

Hot goalies will win you the Stanley Cup

By Tangotiger, 10:07 AM

So yes, you need a ‘hot’ goalie to win the playoffs. It’s just not possible to figure out who’s going to be ‘hot’ until after the fact.

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