Comments on: Radke, Rogers and Tigers, Oh My http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/10/08/radke-rogers-and-tigers-oh-my/ because technology is just another ecosystem Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:25:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Geof F. Morris http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/10/08/radke-rogers-and-tigers-oh-my/#comment-2469 Geof F. Morris Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:34:56 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=1107#comment-2469 You did! ;) [God help me, I should have been an industrial engineer instead of studying aerospace.] You did! ;) [God help me, I should have been an industrial engineer instead of studying aerospace.]

]]> By: stephen o'grady http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/10/08/radke-rogers-and-tigers-oh-my/#comment-2468 stephen o'grady Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:59:58 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=1107#comment-2468 Geof: did i hear a binomial in there? ;) Geof: did i hear a binomial in there? ;)

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/10/08/radke-rogers-and-tigers-oh-my/#comment-2467 Geof F. Morris Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:04:50 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=1107#comment-2467 I don't get why you two are surprised. The World Series champion is just that---a champion, and not necessarily the best team in baseball that year. [For example, I'll take the argument that can easily be made that Alex's Mariners were the best team in baseball in 2001, what with the 116 wins.] The postseason is a crap shoot, fellas---what more do you need to see than the Tigers going on a three-game losing streak to the ROYALS to end their regular season, then going on a modest three-game winning streak to beat the Yankees? Sure, in the postseason, you pull out all the stops to win each individual game, which makes winning any game slightly harder than it is in the regular season, but the lesson of statistics is fairly true: a .300 team will beat a .700 team every so often. When you consider that you're usually pitting .550 teams against .650 teams, well, the binomial distributions kinda solve themselves, don't they? After all, Queen wrote "We Are the Champions", not "We Are the Best Team". I don’t get why you two are surprised. The World Series champion is just that—a champion, and not necessarily the best team in baseball that year. [For example, I'll take the argument that can easily be made that Alex's Mariners were the best team in baseball in 2001, what with the 116 wins.]

The postseason is a crap shoot, fellas—what more do you need to see than the Tigers going on a three-game losing streak to the ROYALS to end their regular season, then going on a modest three-game winning streak to beat the Yankees? Sure, in the postseason, you pull out all the stops to win each individual game, which makes winning any game slightly harder than it is in the regular season, but the lesson of statistics is fairly true: a .300 team will beat a .700 team every so often. When you consider that you’re usually pitting .550 teams against .650 teams, well, the binomial distributions kinda solve themselves, don’t they?

After all, Queen wrote “We Are the Champions”, not “We Are the Best Team”.

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