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455. Are You Ready for a Fresh Start?

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Trades With a Batting Average Reset Provided a Fresh Start

di Dye ran her analysis across all those trades, all those years. And would she find? So i find that when a player's performance is weak, more precisely s their batting average prior to the treat is low, a reset is helpful. Their performance after the treat is significantly better if they are treaded across legs than if they are treated within the same leg. For players who had not been playing well, a trade with a batting average reset provided a fresh start that lifted their fortunes. But for players who were doing well when they were traded, the reset proved to be a negative and an interruption rather than a fresh start....

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