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There are WAY too many triple plays in SOM. It is a ridiculous amount. Way outside the real world norm.

I was once watching my playoff game live. I was down by like 3 runs in the 8th but I had loaded the bases with no one out and my number 3 hitter Honus Wagner was coming to the plate. I was thinking I should at least be able to score a couple runs. Well Honus hit the good ole line out into as many outs as possible and that was that. Brutal

I don't think so with regards to TOO many triple plays. In close to 220,000 games played I recall but 1 for me.

Think he was talking about triple plays, not triples.

Frank just mistyped. He meant triple plays. His 218,690 games played is 17th all time. divad is in an economic class of his own. If he's been playing since 2001 he's averaged 10 teams/month.

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Correct. Meant triple plays. My error.

I looked at retrosheet data for MLB and get about 4.5 triple plays per year for the last 10 years (excluding 2020). That's a rate of about 1.8 triple plays per 1,000 games.

Looking at my downloads of strat pbp for 2021 and 2022 leagues, I estimate that triple plays will occur 3 times per 1,000 games.

Looking at my downloads of ATG, I get a rate of 3.9 triple plays per 1,000 games.

Roosky wrote:I was once watching my playoff game live. I was down by like 3 runs in the 8th but I had loaded the bases with no one out and my number 3 hitter Honus Wagner was coming to the plate. I was thinking I should at least be able to score a couple runs. Well Honus hit the good ole line out into as many outs as possible and that was that. Brutal

A similar thing sparked this topic.

3.9/1000 still seems high, but it is like all things in like….when it happens if important