# Major League Baseball: 2005 Awards?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-2005-awards/324677>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 4, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-2005-awards/324677 "2005-10-04T01:09:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-2005-awards/324677/21 "2005-10-04T20:24:22Z")

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> [@Gangster Octopus](#):
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> I respectfully disagree with this assessment. Mathematically, yeah sure, but I personally think that there is something to be said about helping ot end a losing skid.

I’d wager that a rigorous statistical analysis would prove that the concept of “ending a losing streak” has no great impact on the overall number of wins. A win is a win is a win, just like a hit is a hit is a hit. The concepts of “clutchness” and “pitching stoppers” just don’t bear out. If makes for compelling TV, but over 162 games all those anolomies balance out.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-2005-awards/324677/22 "2005-10-05T06:27:35Z")

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> [@Omniscient](#):
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> I’d wager that a rigorous statistical analysis would prove that the concept of “ending a losing streak” has no great impact on the overall number of wins.

I think earlier statistical analysis has disproven the notion of the “hot hand” (in the NBA, anyway), so that wouldn’t surprise me.

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