Two baseball ideas have been bugging me since last October. Both of them are relatively simple, but their combination is pretty interesting. Here’s what I have been thinking about:
First: In baseball, teams play a lot of one-run games. In 2012, 35% of Pittsburgh’s games were decided by 1-run. In 2013, ten teams had more than a third of their games decided by 1-run (the Chicago White Sox, who led the league in one run games, had 60 of them). Last year, the Boston Red Sox had forty percent of their games decided by one run.