tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post7975197345466474812..comments2024-03-11T13:47:03.621-05:00Comments on Physics and Physicists: The Wrong Team Won Baseball's 2003 World Series?ZapperZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15861398273820851809noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-25170954039074016652007-08-01T18:07:00.000-05:002007-08-01T18:07:00.000-05:00"So I'm not sure why baseball should be any differ..."So I'm not sure why baseball should be any different."<BR/><BR/>The problem with baseball is that striking the ball cleanly is very difficult (due to the ball traveling so fast and swerving in the air while the bat has a small diameter and is round) but the reward is large (i.e. home-runs). Thus the deviation in the expected score in an innings or a match is very large indeed.<BR/><BR/>In cricket, a sport which has lots of similarities with baseball, test matches are played over 5 days (7 hours per days) to ensure a fair contest.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately the author's suggestion of increasing the length of a season would introduce lots of other factors such as increases in injury rate, increased mental and physical fatigue, so that the whole situation would need to be reanalyzed.Kent Leunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13883931195606774116noreply@blogger.com