Walker was right, the Cubs need more night games

[TuffyRhodes]

Hard to argue with him after these last three games......

[UMFan83]

For a while in April and May, thats the only games they were winning....to lazy to check the stats.

[abuck1220]

don't worry, they'll come up with a new excuse.

[Omar]

It's almost like "Dark skinned players play better in the heat" sort of thing. You want to laugh at the stupidity, but you are too saddened by it. Edited August 24, 2006 by Omar

[YearofDaCubs]

don't worry, they'll come up with a new excuse.

They already did. It's the fans' faults.

[soccer10k]

don't worry, they'll come up with a new excuse.

They already did. It's the fans' faults.

 

Stupid fans. Bums.

[ToupeeOnFire]

While maybe my drunken brain cells might be mistaken, I think Bill James wrote extensively about the Cubs being at a disadvantage due to playing day games (with the stats to back it up). If not in his Abstracts, it might have been in one of post-Abstract yearly baseball books.

 

Then again, maybe I am imagining things. I used to own those books, but I lent them to a friend who lives in Floridia. Maybe I am out of my mind!?!

[soccer10k]

While maybe my drunken brain cells might be mistaken, I think Bill James wrote extensively about the Cubs being at a disadvantage due to playing day games (with the stats to back it up). If not in his Abstracts, it might have been in one of post-Abstract yearly baseball books.

 

Then again, maybe I am imagining things. I used to own those books, but I lent them to a friend who lives in Floridia. Maybe I am out of my mind!?!

 

Beer is my friend.

[FergieJ31]

While maybe my drunken brain cells might be mistaken, I think Bill James wrote extensively about the Cubs being at a disadvantage due to playing day games (with the stats to back it up). If not in his Abstracts, it might have been in one of post-Abstract yearly baseball books.

 

Then again, maybe I am imagining things. I used to own those books, but I lent them to a friend who lives in Floridia. Maybe I am out of my mind!?!

 

IIRC that study looked at the hypothesis that the "day game effect" would imply a degradation in the Cubs' winning pct as a function of game number (higher winning pct early in the year). The logic being that long hot summer days take a gradual toll on a body. He did find some weak statistical evidence for this, but it's what we Cubs fans know simply as the June swoon (which started a month early this year).

 

I don't have the BP in front of me but I remember it being a weak, marginally inconclusive test.

[Flames24Rulz]

While maybe my drunken brain cells might be mistaken, I think Bill James wrote extensively about the Cubs being at a disadvantage due to playing day games (with the stats to back it up). If not in his Abstracts, it might have been in one of post-Abstract yearly baseball books.

 

Then again, maybe I am imagining things. I used to own those books, but I lent them to a friend who lives in Floridia. Maybe I am out of my mind!?!

 

Drunk posts own.