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In response to "Same here. I consider baseball and football to be most easily influenced by coaching." by David

But in baseball even the best teams lose 40% of the time. Because even bad teams can have a pitcher who throws a great game or hitter who gets hot.

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Dec 11 '14, 13:40

The other games are less prone to those things. Yes, talent will win out in most sports, but among talented teams coaching means more in the other sports than baseball which are more prone to the laws of averages and outlier performances.

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I just don't see it as coincidence that Bobby Cox, Joe Torre and Tony LaRussa dominated their peers. - David Dec 11, 13:42 6
- Cox was gifted 2.75 first ballot HOF pitchers and half a dozen other HOF hitters.... - Will Hunting Dec 11, 13:49 3
  - Similarly, consider Phil Jackson that took a team the year after Michael Jordan's first retirement to within a bad refs call from going back to the - pmb Dec 11, 13:52 2
    - I would never use Phil in this conversation becuase I don't think he's that good. - Will Hunting Dec 11, 13:56 1
      - The Bulls were their own worst enemies until Jackson was hired. - tobor.2 Dec 11, 14:07
- They weren't coaching the equivalent of the 76ers either. I think those guys are more akin to Phil Jackson than anything in that they had really good - pmb Dec 11, 13:47
- this was part of my thinking, too - which sports have mgrs/coaches who really rise above others, over the course of years and not necessarily because - b. Dec 11, 13:46

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But in baseball even the best teams lose 40% of the time. Because even bad teams can have a pitcher who throws a great game or hitter who gets hot.

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