One of the things I wanted to explain and expand upon from my ALCS Prediction was the idea of potential failure points in the series. At the most basic level, I’m just referring to the number of ways each team’s plan to win in the playoffs could go wrong, but there are a few more wrinkles to it.
In theory, there are infinite ways each team’s game plan could go awry, and a lot of these are symmetrical. Sure, Alex Bregman, the 2018 Astros MVP, could strain a muscle swinging the bat, or break his ankle jumping on home plate, or cut his hand fixing a drone, or injure himself in a freak accident in any number of ways.