Red Sox Win% by games in series

[stepson_and_toe]

View: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GDG7AFdmoXhilnTgWjfM0FsrIWbtSBQIN8_dqHyEtFI/edit?usp=sharing

This is through the Colorado series. The mid games are game 2 of a 3-game series or games 2 and 3 of a 4-game series. I don't understand why the entire table doesn't show but there is a scroll bar at the bottom of the table.

RSpG = runs scored per game; RApG = runs allowed per game; delta is RSpG-RApG. As can be seen, the Red Sox do better in the first games of home games while they do better in the final games of road games.

If anyone has any hints of a better way than Google Docs to post tables, let me know.

 

[Savin Hillbilly]

What you've documented looks like a consistent phenomenon viewed from alternating perspectives: in Sox games this season at least, the road team tends to play better with each successive game of a series. This makes psychological sense to me: the longer you stay in a place you've traveled to, the more comfortable you are there and the more like your normal self you can perform.

Of course this is a very small sample and the effect seems likely to be pure noise. But I'd be curious to see what the numbers look like MLB-wide and across multiple seasons.

 

[stepson_and_toe]

Of course this is a very small sample and the effect seems likely to be pure noise. But I'd be curious to see what the numbers look like MLB-wide and across multiple seasons.

I agree that an MLB-wide look over a longer period of time would provide a better look at this but that would take quite a bit of time to produce. However, I'm not inclined to believe that it is pure noise.