Normalization

[TomSiebert]

That's funny and all about the Braves and BoSox, but I still feel there are serious questions not being addressed here.

On a completely separate note, I lost a decisive game 6 in the first round of the playoffs after HAL brought in Luke French in the 7th during a tight one-run game. French had been marked as "mop up" all season, never ever game into a game in that situation until the playoffs. Why?

tws

[Valen]

Bernie has said repeatedly normalization is not on. I suspect he got tired of repeating himself and now just ignores the grassy knoll conspiracy fanatics.

My personal opinion on normalization... It makes a nice excuse when your teams are not doing well. Of course when they are doing well whether early or late it is always the manager's great skill. :lol:

But really this is not a strat phenomenon. It is throughout our culture. The other team never just outplayed us the home team always choked. Nobody ever gives the other guy any credit for anything. Maybe the reason your team is sliding is because your opponent made adjustments to their team to counter yours. Maybe opponents start slotting their best pitchers to go against you. Maybe some of your opponents are using matchup strategies with their pitchers and with the season half way through have sufficient data to more easily recognize your weaknesses and take advantage of them.

In summary why not consider the possibility your opponents are not total buffoons instead of assuming someone wrote computer code just to thwart your team.

As many conspiracy theorists as are out there if there was anything to this it would already have been proven because you would see the midseason leaders in every league tanking the second half. And you would see lots of vets intentionally playing bench players and losing early to take advantage of second half normalization.

[Munich_Man]

I am definitely not a tinfoil hat guy, but when my team that has been scoring 10.6 runs/game suddenly averages barely 7 RPG over the last 21, and Bonds, on pace for 115 HRs only hits 3 in the last 21 games to end up with 99, I do start to get suspicious...

[Blutarsky]

[quote:3400c0b122="Munich_Man"]I am definitely not a tinfoil hat guy, but when my team that has been scoring 10.6 runs/game suddenly averages barely 7 RPG over the last 21, and Bonds, on pace for 115 HRs only hits 3 in the last 21 games to end up with 99, I do start to get suspicious...[/quote:3400c0b122]

But don't you think "normalization" might have kicked in somewhere before, oh, I don't know, 100 HRs? Not sure how a player's 118 HR season could be evidence of normalization...

[SGTD]

I wish it was on so my 105 win team would not have been swept in the Finals :( . SGT D

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=332603