Baseball playoffs

[Occhidiangela]

Baseball has it's flukes.  The KC Royals (the worst team in baseball right now) still wins games against the Yankees, the Red Sox and the White Sox.  There is a quote that goes, in a season everyone team in baseball will win 50 games, every team will lose 50 games, and the other 50 games decide all the difference.

Now I admit at this point I seem rather absurd in saying it would be a total fluke if the Astros won a game.  They aren't that bad; they aren't the KC Royals (sorry to the Royals fans out there).  What I originally ment to say is something more along the lines that although I wouldn't have been surprised if the Astros did pick up a game in the series, I'm also not surprised that they didn't.  They played a superior team and that sometimes spells sweep.

But, it would of been unfair of me to call it a fluke if they had won.

Cheers,

Munk
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I have to disagree, there is little flukish about it. Unlike football, playoff process is a multi game effort. It is in the nature of the game for odd combinations of talent to succeed against another combination of talent. There is also the matter of performance streaks. The variation of performance, particuarly in run productions, is considerable. Success for a good batter is getting a hit, or on base, 1/3 to 2/5th's of the time respectively. The strike zone, allegedly fixed, is somewhat amorphous. So, no, not flukes, a result of the inherent variability of outcomes imbedded in the process.

The quantum nature, as in uncertainty of what impacts what else, of baseball is what makes surprising and thrilling outcomes part of the game's charm.

Occhi