Red Sox collapse statistically

[sjain]

I don't know many people follow baseball but came across this article on the recent collapse of Boston Red Sox -
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/bill-buckner-strikes-again/?hp

It doesn't make much sense but its funny..

 

[dstefan]

Another one:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7033950/a-running-diary-game-162

That said, the Red Sox won the most World Series this millennium...

 

[Yike Lu]

Loved this from the article

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sports.png

 

[sjain]

This shows their recent performance was quite an outlier
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images...sox1/fivethirtyeight-0927-redsox1-blog480.png

 

[alain]

you guys like to rub it in. Poor Sanket... is he alive? did he cry last night?

 

[Sanket Patel]

you guys like to rub it in. Poor Sanket... is he alive? did he cry last night?

Very funny...

 

[Sanket Patel]

Given the shenanigans the Red Sox pulled in September, I'm almost embarrassed to admit being a Red Sox fan. I thought blowing the wildcard lead was a Mets specialty.

 

[sjain]

Not trying to insult Red Sox but the article draws a statistical inference that this might be the biggest collapse ever.