SPECULATOR: Back-testing early SP meltdowns
Apr 11 2013
You wait all winter for the games to start. You build your pitching staff with extreme care... then the games start and it only takes a few days for it all to go horribly wrong. If that sounds like your first week of the 2013 season, then you probably absorbed one of the starting pitcher poundings that were sprinkled through Week 1.
Which ones should we be particularly concerned about, and which ones should we just dismiss as an unfortunate aberration? Of course, the smart approach is to remain mindful of the sample sizes involved here, and consider all of them aberrations until we get more data. We simply can't draw conclusions from one day's work.
However, since speculation is (after all) our charge in this space, let's run through a...
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