I guess clutch is highly overrated

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Sweet Swinging 26

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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostTue Feb 27, 2024 9:42 am

45 games, still stuck on 1 clutch opportunity.

Hitters are all positive clutch BTW.
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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostTue Feb 27, 2024 12:10 pm

That's pretty gross although not having the ill effects of negative clutch is a big boon too.
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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostTue Feb 27, 2024 8:43 pm

Small sample of one team, but small plus clutch and a larger negative result.

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/misc/1739359
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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostThu Feb 29, 2024 10:14 am

The question now is will this team ever have another clutch opportunity.
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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostThu Feb 29, 2024 2:31 pm

Sweet Swinging 26 wrote:At least with this team:

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/misc/1759040

1, yep 1, clutch situation in 33 games thus far this season. WOW.

maybe you needed to sacrifice more ab`s,moving runners often,surely would have change that
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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostThu Feb 29, 2024 8:12 pm

Like FrankieT said, it's not always about the actual clutch opportunities, but the way Hal tends to pitch to hitters in that context. Yes, I do see few clutch hits per season, but that's just part of the larger picture of everything involved.
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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostMon Mar 04, 2024 10:15 am

63 games in and still only 1 clutch opportunity. Team is 5th in the league in batting average, so not a horrible offensive team. Just finding it amazing the dearth of clutch opportunities.
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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostFri Mar 08, 2024 10:46 am

I honestly don't think clutch is worth worrying about. Typically, a team might face 20+/- clutch opportunities in a single season. That's out of about 5700+ at bats. And most of the great hitters have neutral or negative clutch.
One recent team of mine in a 24 team league (Barnstormer Semifinals) finished second in the league in runs scored with a a 1-23 clutch result. The #1 run-scorer in the league had a 2-15 clutch. The #3 run-scoring team had an 0-12 clutch.
I just don't see any reward coming from the pursuit of positive clutch.
So, my advice is, draft good hitters and don't worry about clutch. :D
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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostSat Mar 09, 2024 8:46 am

Outta Leftfield wrote:I honestly don't think clutch is worth worrying about. Typically, a team might face 20+/- clutch opportunities in a single season. That's out of about 5700+ at bats. And most of the great hitters have neutral or negative clutch.
One recent team of mine in a 24 team league (Barnstormer Semifinals) finished second in the league in runs scored with a a 1-23 clutch result. The #1 run-scorer in the league had a 2-15 clutch. The #3 run-scoring team had an 0-12 clutch.
I just don't see any reward coming from the pursuit of positive clutch.
So, my advice is, draft good hitters and don't worry about clutch. :D


Sure looks that way with 2 opps in 78 games. I'd say Clutch should only be considered as the "tie breaker" when deciding between 2 otherwise equal players.
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Re: I guess clutch is highly overrated

PostSat Mar 09, 2024 10:59 am

Sweet Swinging 26 wrote:Sure looks that way with 2 opps in 78 games. I'd say Clutch should only be considered as the "tie breaker" when deciding between 2 otherwise equal players.

That makes sense to me. For some reason, and with a few exceptions, HAL gives most of the hitters I like best a neutral or negative clutch rating. Looking for a hitter I like who has positive clutch is needle-in-a-haystack work for me. So I basically just don't bother.
If a team has 20 clutch opportunities out of 5700 AB, that's about 1/3 of 1%. For me, it's not worth busting my brain over one third of one percent of ABs.
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