Posted by MikeT23 on 6/9/2017 8:34:00 AM (view original):
A) We aren't MLB teams. MLB teams do it to save money or, if you prefer, make more money. HBD don't make money.
B) It's situational as I laid out. Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's dumb. Anyone saying "Always" in HBD is giving bad advice(except for 20m in training).
"Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's dumb."
The truth is that ALWAYS it's right, NEVER it's dumb, sometimes you get unlucky and miss the playoffs by 1 game.
But truthfully that's just being results-oriented vs process-oriented.
-From a Process perspective it is always 100% mathematically correct. It is never wrong. Literally never.
-From a Results perspective, yes SOMETIMES, OCCASIONALLY you are the S19 version of the
Franchise Profile: Texas Toast where you literally miss the playoffs by 1 game because you literally went 15-30 in 1-run games, so your expected win% was .625% but your actual was .549%. But USUALLY you are the S17-18 and S20-24+ version that destroys everybody and gets to the LCS and beyond every season. Those S20-S24+ rosters are simply not possible to assemble without this concept. With a finite maximum budget you simply cannot make enough acquisitions unless you are saving money somewhere somehow. Give me 9 seasons of WS chances and I'll gladly trade you the one where I got very unlucky and missed by 1 game.
Team probably wasn't good enough to win that one anyways!!!
This is a quite literal example of trading 2 wins now for 10 later. This concept is mathematically proven and ALWAYS correct, whether you "believe it" or not. Don't waste my time telling me whether you
believe it, tell me whether you
understand it.
6/9/2017 1:30 PM (edited)