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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Post-season experience matters?

By Tangotiger, 10:46 AM

Apparently, it does:

But while a team’s record did not have much of an effect on its odds of winning a postseason series, its advantage in experience did. A team that had, on average, one more year worth of postseason experience than its counterpart, is expected to win their post-season series 54.2 percent of the time, which is nothing to scoff at.

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