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Originally Posted by tk13
Yeah this was always a big topic in baseball with the increase in analytics, and I always disagreed with people saying there's no such thing as clutch. There may not be such a thing as clutch, but there's no way you could have watched any sports the last 30 years and think there aren't guys who struggle with pressure in big moments.
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Yeah - and even the guys who struggle are a little bit overblown in how they're criticized.
For the vast majority of them, it's a sample size issue and a lot of that stuff cleans up as the sample size gets bigger and the signal/noise drops. You'll see less and less of those arguments as post-season fields get bigger and bigger and guys have more opportunities to amass 40 or 50 or 60 post-season games and can eventually get to their natural level.
But historically a lot of guys only got a handful of cracks at it and if they didn't come through - that was that. They were chokers rather than guys who simply never got the sample size to even out their performance.