I don't get it

So why play 160 games a year that even you as a fan don't care about?

>seamen
average american intellectual

1. beautiful stadiums
2. lends itself to accurate and deep statistical analysis, which appeals to nerds
3. has a leisurely pace, so it moves slow enough so you can criticize every player while you drink and eat hot dogs

It's not my favorite sport, but that's the appeal

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Because money.

fpbp

>Beautiful Stadiums

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>cherry picks the trop when every other stadium is better

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>Land of the Free
>can't even drink in public places
>speed limits everywhere
[laughs in German]

>>can't even drink in public places
the fuck are you talking about

Can you waltz into any supermarket, buy 40% AVP vodka, swagger outside and let 'er rip right in the parking lot? Can you go to a park with friends and consume alcoholic beverages? Maybe my information is incorrect; please correct me if that is the case.

you responded to a post about drinking at a ball park, which is a public place. so yes you can drink in public places. can you drink in every public place? in some cities yes. they are cities without open container laws. most places no

>It's a "poster from country that only watches soccer gets angry other sports exist episode
>it is a repeat
Another great reason soccer should be moved to Yea Forums or its own board.

He meant that he sucks off sailors.

>furpuck

It's a comfy viewing experience where you go to a big stadium with your m8s, eat meat in a carpark and get drunk whilst watching blokes whack balls about. Understandable that someone who exclusively watches sport on TV wouldn't appreicate it.

This
The two sports are perfectly developed to keep brainlets and ADHD kids away

lots of games because it's a game about winning series- and because it's not a contact sport you could play many games. and it's strategy based like somebody said more than any other sport. for me it's relaxing and yeah it's hard to watch every game but like a tv show the good part of it is the ups and downs. you cannot watch a game in april and come round in september and expect the same team most times. it's a rollercoaster. idk what else to tell you. my only complaint is being on edge thinking a pitcher my blow out his arm. always sucks. I could go on forever but I'm done

Comfiness

>2. lends itself to accurate and deep statistical analysis, which appeals to nerds
how does one learn these statistical anaylses

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meant for

>study stats
>learn R
>download datasets
>read Bill James
>read more complex Stuff ob Sabremetrics
>plug away to having a decent fantasy season.
>?????
>make 20 bucks

Uh, ball parks are private property.

>it's strategy based like somebody said more than any other sport
But how? No one answered me. If anything it might be the least strategy-based. Each team chooses a guy to throw and hit and then they throw and hit. There are so few variables.

to iron out variance.

stfu up chang

Why don't you go learn about the shift?

alright you responded to me so I'll shit out some examples:
1. sometimes a hitter might only be good hitting left handed pitchers (hitter is a righty). and in a big situation with men on the corners you need that nigger to strike out since he's been hitting well for a few days so you try to neutralize him with that lefty specialist and if succeeding, you keep the score the same.

2. sometimes a hitter will routinely hit a ball to perhaps left/center field. so a manager will have a paper (created by stat nerds) that tells players where to field the ball so the probability of the team catching the out rises dramatically and thus he's a non problem (players need to fucking learn how to small ball but that's another rant).

3. for pitchers they have to at least learn a fastball and then other types of pitches to be successful. let's say you can throw 100 mph gas and that's it, but a hitter can hit those balls out the park every time, you as the pitcher in the offseason better learn something else because other teams can figure you out, so why not learn a curve or a change up (essentially a ball that comes out your hand as a fastball but it's slower and "breaks" before hitting the plate, thus making you swing early at nothing). I can autistically go on but it's a few things to consider.

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What does that even mean?

Two people have made this claim in this thread when it seems to me the opposite is true. How is baseball at least in any way strategic, let alone "more than any other sport"?

>What does that even mean?
The larger your sample size, the less variance. Are you slow or something?

1 and 2 are examples of strategy, yes, but these seem obvious to me. If a guy has trouble doing certain things, you should try to exploit his weakness. This is the same kind of thing as in tennis where you might aim for a guy's backhand if it's particularly weak. 3 is just training so that you can employ them later. Just like in tennis you develop a backspin and forward spin. This doesn't make baseball a particularly strategic sport.

Oh, I thought you replied to the post I made just before yours.

See
This is some good basic stuff. But it is also very important to point out to people who know literally nothing about baseball, the batter has almost no time to "react" to a pitch:
See exploratorium.edu/baseball/articles/biological-baseball.html
Even the individual strategy for reading a pitch is insane, it is not like cricket where you see the bowl and just swing, the pitch happens far to fast for that.

thank you for that link

You can ignore when it gets sciency. But you also have to do some game theory based on the situation, if it is 3 balls 0 strikes, the batter has room to be picky with swining, but the pitcher also knows this, and thus a game of statistics can be played to figuire out the best course of action for both parties, but it is based on percentages rather than a simple one answer. If in this situation, a pitcher throws 100% strikezone pitches, batters will always swing, if he always throws balls, he will end up always walking batters. But he shouldn't just switch it up 50/50 so he has to find an optimal balance where he can still have batters mostly indifferent between swinging and not swinging, With a tendancy to throw more strikes than balls but not so many that batters just start swinging more than hoping to get a walk.

Pesäpallo is infinitely better than this "sport" that is exclusively played by fat boomers

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