Baseball numbers
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Sep 19, 2008
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Baseball has some unusual numbers to measure success. I heard in a movie that batters who hit the ball 2 out of 10 times are pretty good. If they hit 3 out of 10, they're considered great. What an odd concept. Numbers in the range of 20-30% would amount to failure in pretty much every other aspect of life. If you showed up to work 2 days in 2 weeks (10 working days), you'd be fired without a second thought. If you stopped at 30% of the traffic lights you encountered, you'd lose your drivers license, assuming you didn't get killed first.
Another number to consider is wins vs. losses. A good team wins half its games. A great team wins maybe 60% of its games. That's ridiculous. A football team that won half its games would be a failure (unless all the other teams in its division have even worse records, in which case it might clinch a wildcard playoff spot). A great team in football can win 100% of its games. Now that's a pretty good measure of success. #sports
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