Comments on: Things That Scare Me; Things That Don’t http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/09/23/things-that-scare-me-things-that-dont/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Isaac Bennett http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/09/23/things-that-scare-me-things-that-dont/#comment-13852 Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:16:17 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=14547#comment-13852 Yeah. I hate the five game series for that reason. Simply too fickle. Of course the Cubs are set up wonderfully, but it only serves to give them a few percentage points advantage.

Yep, you’re absolutely correct here. Should be a fun five years or so.

]]> By: victor19nyc http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/09/23/things-that-scare-me-things-that-dont/#comment-13781 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:42:00 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=14547#comment-13781 Several items here regarding pitching. Bottom line, if the Cubs offense gets shut down a playoff series will boil down to which team’s run prevention is best. Over the course of the season the Cubs are #1 in that regard so the Cubs will always have a slight advantage. That said, in a low run scoring environment the 5-game series will be a little scary.

Re: 108 years of championship futility, as a result of the current playoff format, even “favored” the Cubs will have a less than 25 percent chance of winning it all. These days in order to win a WS you often need multiple bites at the apple (of course multiple championships would be great).

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