Quote: Originally posted by winnetka1 on 9/18/2009What I am getting at here is that we are reading about the extreme outcomes that seem to defy logic and assuming that it is prevalent therefore some kind of problem with SIM. What we don't read is how the team with 110 wins crushed the 88 win WC team in the first round. People tend to not post bragging of victories becuase for one it wouldn't even be fun to read...like, who cares? There must be a lot of other cases out there where SIM works properly, we only read about it when it doesn't....or at least when perception is that it doesn't.
I agree. Looking at my profile, I see I've made the playoffs 165 times. I can count on one hand the number of times I lost a series where I thought going in, "There's NO WAY my team is going to lose to this team." Same thing vice versa, where I pulled off (what I considered to be) a huge upset.
That said, getting knocked out of the playoffs by what you judge to be a vastly inferior team does stick in your craw. I'll never forget my 109 win team getting swept in the first round by an 80 win team -- and that must have been 150 teams ago for me! Phillies franchise team, and my Steve Carlton and Jim Bunning were the #1 and #2 Cy Young vote-getters, and between them they started all three games. I think one had an ERA over 12, the other over 14. Never mind a game, I don't think I even won an INNING in that series, ha ha.