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Originally Posted by CrescentMoonie
Yep, you're the baseball equivalent of a conspiracy nut. You've been given reasonable explanations, with empirical support, and essentially stuck your fingers in your ears and said "nuh-uh." You made the assertion that different baseballs are used in the playoffs. Provide anything that resembles evidence of that.
Here's a study of 2005-2006 showing the effects of colder weather on both pitcher control and batted balls. Due to the colder, drier air, pitchers have less precise control which leads increases in K, BB, and HBP. HRs drop by 0.8% of batted balls once you get under 75°. |
And congrats on becoming the first person Ive ever had to use the ignore feature on. Firstly in the NBA thread you actually try to argue that one of the best NBA players on planet earth isnt a huge upgrade over an aging injury prone center and you follow that up by insisting on using other peoples work to refute a claim that isnt even comparable to my argument. Time to move on from you. I will give you credit at least on the Durant argument you stuck to the point of what you were saying. Puffing your chest out about weather effects that have been around for 30+ years without responding to thinking outside the box of what other factors might be in play with lower scoring postseason games. Any chance that hitters are tensing up, any chance they could be using different balls, any chance the umps are calling a larger zone? Nothing else right? Just games in San Francisco become lower scoring during the post season because of the huge San Francisco cold surge that happens in October. We all know the dome effects in October to decrease exit velocity off the bat as well. Clearly, its just gotta be the weather. Peace!