Fair enough. Personally, I play all the time while I'm working (I work a ton of hours at times but work at home so have that flexibiity) and can't watch closely enough to bring the IF in every time a runner gets to third. If I'm playing someone I know will squeeze, I only play those games when I can pay attention.
FYI, because I'm in a slow time at work and always have fun determining whether anecdote is fact, I went through a reasonably large sample of games to find out what the success rate is for scoring runners from third with less than 2 outs. I did 38 games by taking each of my teams and clicking on a date, then choosing the first and last game played on that date so teams/parks were randomly selected. To avoid an undue influence going to fresh pitchers or the top of the batting order, I checked for that situation going from the start of the game, the third inning and backwards from the ninth about a third of the time each. I only counted the first instance I saw in each game, and in that sample the runner scored 71% of the time. (27 scored, 11 did not). Obviously not a scientific enough study to prove anything, but it seems extremely likely that it's close enough to determine that our success rate at scoring the runner is at least somewhat higher — not lower — than real life.
game |
score |
no score |
1 |
x |
|
2 |
|
x |
3 |
|
x |
4 |
x |
|
5 |
x |
|
6 |
x |
|
7 |
x |
|
8 |
|
x |
9 |
|
x |
10 |
x |
|
11 |
|
x |
12 |
|
x |
13 |
x |
|
14 |
x |
|
15 |
x |
|
16 |
x |
|
17 |
|
x |
18 |
x |
|
19 |
x |
|
20 |
x |
|
21 |
x |
|
22 |
x |
|
23 |
x |
|
24 |
x |
|
25 |
|
x |
26 |
x |
|
27 |
x |
|
28 |
x |
|
29 |
x |
|
30 |
x |
|
31 |
|
x |
32 |
x |
|
33 |
x |
|
34 |
x |
|
35 |
|
x |
36 |
x |
|
37 |
|
x |
38 |
x |
|
|
27 |
11 |
success rate |
0.710526316 |
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