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This article shows that the Giants have had among the toughest, if not THE toughest, schedule of any NL team thus far. It also argues that the Dodgers have had among the easiest.

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Eh, I don’t pin our lack of hitting on a tough schedule. I pin it on a lack of hitting ability

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by Useful_Idiot on Jun 2, 2009 10:31 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Wait

Don’t better team usually have better pitching and are therefore harder to hit against.

I keep looking at this upcoming road trip against Nats/Marlins/D-backs as a good test to see whether this team is putting it together. If they’re not pretenders, they should win 6 or 7 games on this 10-game trip.

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by Goofus on Jun 2, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

perhaps that’s because the Giants don’t get to play the Giants and everyone else does.

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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 2, 2009 11:32 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

You know we’re above .500, right?

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:-(

by Cookyman on Jun 2, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

an illusion?

it just hasn’t sunk in, I guess.

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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 2, 2009 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Im so used to being negative and fatalistic, I dont know what to do with a winning team

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by CB30 on Jun 2, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I guess the losses hurt more than the wins feel good.

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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 2, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

not quite sure what metrics are in place under the hood, but rather than just looking at an opponent’s win% this needs to take into account the fact that, yes, maybe the giants were playing good teams, but they were also being pwnd by scrap heap pitchers (or that Lou Piniella ran out the B-squad on a Tuesday morning of a getaway day).

by sayheybk on Jun 2, 2009 11:36 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I think it is pretty interesting

And certainly worth of considering.

Possibly part of the reason the Giants rank so high and the Dodgers rank so low is because of the # of games between the two teams so far this season.

Not that it matters, or is anything you can do anything about…. but the Giants schedule could certainly have benifitted from a few more games V. the nationals instead of the Mets.

by FairweatherFan on Jun 2, 2009 3:15 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Of course the Dodgers have an easier schedule.

They don’t have to play the the winningest team in baseball.

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by Bhaakon on Jun 2, 2009 3:43 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

That was kinda my point

I think doing this by wins is dumb. There’s gotta be a way to do it w/ runs.

by FairweatherFan on Jun 2, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

This is done with runs.

And then converted to the wins scale.

Although if you don’t do it right (and the BPro numbers don’t quite do it right, I don’t think) then you have the same problem with runs as wins.

Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.

by Sky Kalkman on Jun 2, 2009 7:24 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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