Did anyone else notice this pattern?

Must be a coincidence.................Nolasco's L8 starts

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Wonder what tonights outcome will be?

i take it you're not a "Skeptic".

http://skepdic.com/lawofnumbers.html

I don't think this has anything to do with astronomy. In baseball there are trends set. In baseball it's perfectly ok to spot them and follow them.
There could be underlying circumstances that create the pattern, but nonetheless they reoccur over and over. Maybe it's a mental thing with the pitcher, or it could be mental with the team in his starts. Maybe it's even fabricated, who knows. Florida did lose last night 1-9, but I don't think I could bet against this pattern in his next start that he will lose again.

I do study won/loss patterns in baseball and NBA. I do think sometimes patterns can result from sticktly random and arbitrary factors but other times there can be a factors that you can identify as being the reason for the pattern. Once example is day/night baseball. It is possible that for some reason a pitcher just pitches better under the lights than during the day...stuff like that.

I don't think anyone is saying that there are not patterns. The real problem is that many 'nearly random' sets of data look like patterns but are not.

There are patterns out there, no doubt. HOWEVER, there are many MORE sets of data that only look like patterns (and are not,) than actual working trends/correlations/patterns. tulsa