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Old Fri Aug 16, 2013, 10:18am
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There's no perfect answer of course and even the LL adjustment Rich mentions can lead to some (attempted) "gaming" of the system
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Old Fri Aug 16, 2013, 11:42am
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One can imagine the defensive effort put forth in the bottom of the 9th by a team that has already been eliminated in the tournament....
Dive for that ball? I don't think so.
Johnny just walked in 4 runs? Let's just leave him out there.
Hustle to keep that gapper from rolling to the wall? Yeah right.
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Old Tue Aug 20, 2013, 08:38am
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There's no perfect answer of course and even the LL adjustment Rich mentions can lead to some (attempted) "gaming" of the system
How? If a team doesn't play defense for an inning, it's not counted for or against them.
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Old Tue Aug 20, 2013, 09:40am
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How? If a team doesn't play defense for an inning, it's not counted for or against them.
Three pool games. team A gives up 3 runs in games 1 and 2 (6 innings each).

Knows it needs to get runs / inning to .33 to make the tournament part.

Ahead 9-0 going into bottom of 5. If they score a run, the game is over and runs / inning is 6/17 which is too high. So, they intentionally make an out so they can play the 6th and try to hold the other team scoreless.

Heck, maybe Team B does NOT want team A in the tournament, so they intentionally give up a run.
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Old Tue Aug 20, 2013, 10:36am
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Three pool games. team A gives up 3 runs in games 1 and 2 (6 innings each).

Knows it needs to get runs / inning to .33 to make the tournament part.

Ahead 9-0 going into bottom of 5. If they score a run, the game is over and runs / inning is 6/17 which is too high. So, they intentionally make an out so they can play the 6th and try to hold the other team scoreless.

Heck, maybe Team B does NOT want team A in the tournament, so they intentionally give up a run.
I'm not too bothered about that, but that is a possible gaming....
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