Posted by grizzly_one on 4/15/2021 1:55:00 PM (view original):
I don't play in the tourney's. So in this talk, I am an outsider.
But I always design my teams to basically creep into the playoffs, but be more dominant there, with consideration to the TOC as well.
My regular season W% is .576. My playoff W% is .624. My World Series W% as to winning when there (not games, I don't have that info.) is .729,
I disagree with your assessment that winning in the playoffs is a coin flip. And frankly if a simpleton like me can figure that out. I'm sure the more scientific WIS players can to an even higher degree.
And my alias Winter Frost won 8 of 10 Open leagues. (That was my response to Miami_Tilt's challenge.)
Anyway, just thought I'd drop this.
I agree with Grizzly on this one. I have only played in a progressive league for the last 5 years, so I might be a bit out of date on OL and tourneys. I do know that when I played in OLs, I built my teams specifically for winning TOCs. I think that the data of my teams shows that teams can be built towards the goal of winning titles.
Regular season W%: 0.522
Playoff W%: 0.582
Percent of World Series won to WS appearances: 0.777, 21/27
TOC record: 206-112 or 0.648
Percent of TOC championships to TOC final appearances: 100%, 8/8
I don't have a ton of seasons played, 141 seasons total. 60 of those seasons have been in progressives and another 48 seasons playing in the WISC many years ago. That leaves around 33 OL teams. The goal of those OL teams were to win the TOC. 8 out of the 33 teams were able to get that goal. I think that help shows that playoffs and tournaments are more than a coinflip.