1.0 link 189476 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-stavins/what-baseball-can-teach-p_b_189476.html With the Major League Baseball season having just begun, I'm reminded of the truism that the best teams win their divisions in the regular season, but the hot teams win in the post-season playoffs. Why the difference? The regular season is 162 games long, but the post-season consists of just a few brief 5-game and 7-game series. And because of the huge random element that pervades the sport, in a single game (or a short series), the best teams often...

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