
Effectively Wild Episode 1981: An Arrow in the Knee at the WBC
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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Is There a Hidden Ball Trick?
I feel like there was once a stat blast about whether or not baseball games were more likely to be close one to two run different say plus extra innings. I think it's generally true that games were closer and also maybe that that that comebacks are harder now but it's not like an enormous difference. There have been bigger mismatches in the league where you've had a bunch of 100 plus win teams and a bunch of hundred loss teams so they would be more likely not to have a comeback in that kind of game too. So, yeah, relative to the peak of the PD era let's say or the more recent juice ball era games were typically closer in the late 80s let's
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