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| Topic | Sports are so boring. The meta never changes. |
| Calwings 11/03/18 9:41:47 PM #25: | Isoflurane posted... That is not right. Home runs are at all time highs. Everyone is swinging for the fences. Small ball took a hit with analytics after the juiced era. OBP was king and teams started to realize that stealing was only worth it at a certain rate and giving up outs to move runners was a bad idea. To be fair, this whole "swing for the fences" thing mainly took off because defenses started shifting on pull hitters. When players who used to get line-drive singles and doubles all the time were instead grounding out to a defense stacking 3-4 infielders on one side and hitting barely over .200, they decided to beat the shift by hitting the ball where no one could catch it: over the fence. As a result, home runs, walks, and strikeouts are up league-wide, while hits that aren't home runs are down league-wide. Isoflurane posted... But yes, OP is wrong. Rules changes and analytics change sports strategies all the time Absolutely agreed. Watch an NHL game from Wayne Gretzky's time, and then watch one now. Watch an NFL game from the days of the Steel Curtain defense, and then watch one now. Watch an NBA game from the era of Bill Russell's Celtics, then watch one now. It's like night and day. --- "Someday I too will fly... and find you again!" https://imgur.com/W64n8YV ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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