Quote:The Nats had the best team all season long, and the deepest. Even in September when they had it sewn up they still put the pedal down. How they turned cold in 5 games is astounding. Bumgarner is a good pitcher, but those Nats bats should have killed Hudson and Vogelsong.

 

Jayson Werth going 1 for 17? Unbelievable.

 

Google: "Baseball playoffs are a crapshoot". Here a great article on it. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/should-ml...-playoffs/

 

“The playoffs are a great thing for our sport – I want to make that clear,” Beane tells Posnanski. “But let’s call it what it is: we allow small sample sizes and random events to determine the champion. That’s how it is in baseball.”

 

 

Think about it.

 

The best team in the entire league, over the course of 162 games, about 3-2 in every 5 game series.

The worst team in the entire league, over the course of 162 games, goes about 2-3 in every 5 games.

 

A 5 game sample size of baseball is incredibly small when you consider the amount of variables and luck involved.

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