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[QUOTE="donniesyracuse, post: 4491474, member: 101"]
They’ve had many different players and lineups since 2009. There was certainly more going on than just a lack of contact. Certainly, the Yankees failing to win a World Series is not proof that small ball wins in the postseason. I am sure you know better than that.

The high batting average World Series champions hit .248 last year.

Check out this article if you have time.

[URL='https://blogs.fangraphs.com/yes-the-playoffs-are-still-a-crapshoot/']Yes, the Playoffs are Still a Crapshoot[/URL]

[I]Contact rate is another post-hoc explanation for why certain teams win, but that was rejected from the model at the 95% level of significance. The same goes for attempts to include momentum (second-half performance, September record). Team speed doesn’t make the threshold. Neither does clutch performance during the regular season or postseason performance history of the players involved. In layman’s terms, knowing which teams have these characteristics has little to no value in telling us why certain teams won playoff games over the last three decades, apart from their effect on their Pythagorean record. Surprisingly, what was (barely) useful enough to make it as a variable was team age, but this was an advantage on the side of young players; young teams, and consequently, teams with less playoff experience veryslightly overperformed over the last 28 postseasons.[/I]
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