by gbrookes » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:27 pm
Please don't be too upset with me for saying this....but you have to remember that the games are based on random die rolls. Random means exactly that. It doesn't mean that it will be split evenly according to probabilities, except over a VERY long period of time.
My comment is based specifically on an experience that another gamer had with a particular player about 2 years ago. He had a good hitter with a big salary (say over $6,000,000), but the hitter was horrible for the first 100 games of the season. During the last 60 games he performed a little better than the expected results, but not enough to make up for the horrible first 100 games.
The point is, that you have to remember that dice can do nasty things on a consistent basis, sometimes for a long while at a time. It is just the nature of a random die roll and a card that has nice results and bad results. And, I think that the bad results really can occur consistently over an extended period of time. It is on the leading or trailing edge of a bell curve, for a normal distribution, according to statistics theory/math.
Of course, the same thing can occur in a good way. I usually put that down to "good strategy" on my part! ;)