{"id":86,"date":"2005-10-15T20:06:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T11:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-10-15\/86"},"modified":"2005-10-15T20:06:14","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T11:06:14","slug":"the-inequities-of-north-american-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-10-15\/86","title":{"rendered":"The Inequities of North-American Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

\n\nIn the world of baseball this season, what's the difference between the Washington Nationals<\/a> and\nthe San Diego Padres<\/a>?\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIf you look at their records<\/a>, there's not much\ndifference. With San Diego at 82 wins and Washington at 81 wins, San Diego<\/span> did better by one game (and that's over a 162<\/span>-game season). San Diego, with\ntheir 82 wins, won their division (National League, Central) and guaranteed\nthemselves a spot<\/span> in the playoffs (where they promptly lost<\/a>).\n\n<\/p>\n\n

\n\nWashington, however, with their almost-identical record, happens to be in a\ndifferent<\/span> division (National League, East), and their 81 wins was good\nenough to get them..... dead last. No playoff<\/span> spot. Is this at<\/span> all fair?\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThe team I root for, the Cleveland Indians<\/a>, with\ntheir 93 wins did better than 37% of the teams that did make the playoffs. Is this at<\/span> all fair?\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIn Japanese baseball this year (with only 12 teams, in two divisions), the\nfour teams with the best records got into the playoffs. The team I<\/span> root\nfor, the Hanshin\nTigers<\/a>, won their division for the first time since, I think,<\/span> 1989, the\nyear I first<\/span> came to Japan. They'll play the winner of the other division\nfor the “Japan Series” (which seems more appropriately named than the\nNorth-American “World” Series).\n\n<\/p>

\n\nAs much as it was Hanshin's year this year, it was the opposite for the Rakuten Golden\nEagles<\/a>, which ended the year 25 games back.... from the 2nd-to-last\nplace team in their division. All in all<\/span>, they ended a stunning<\/span> 51.5 games\nback from the Softbank\nHawks<\/a> (and this is in a season<\/span> with only 136 games). Better luck next\nyear!\n\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the world of baseball this season, what's the difference between the Washington Nationals and the San Diego Padres? <\/p>

If you look at their records, there's not much difference. With San Diego at 82 wins and Washington at 81 wins, San Diego did better by one game (and that's over a 162-game season). San Diego, with their 82 wins, won their division (National League, Central) and guaranteed themselves a spot in the playoffs (where they promptly lost). <\/p>

Washington, however, with their almost-identical record, happens to be in a different division (National League, East), and their 81 [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}