
Effectively Wild Episode 2013: The League Looks More Level
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Evils of the Zombie Runner
The idea that close games just tend to sort of throw the home field advantage for a loop makes sense. So you dove into the year by year data to see whether this theory made sense. This hypothesis that the zombie runner has made it harder for home teams to win an extra inning is completely wrong. There's absolutely no relationship between team one lost record and propensity of play extra inning game.
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