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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 8/24/20

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Ben Clemens

2:55

Despite their recent run of poor luck

Derek

2:55

Risk definitely needs a rules change to be good. Honestly a terrible game - I'd rather play craps or something instead. Or just roll a die a bunch of times and add the numbers until I get bored.

Ben Clemens

2:55

The guy who made Pandemic Legacy also made Risk Legacy, though I haven't played it

That might be good

2:56

But yeah Risk is not a great game. There's a reason that people didn't always love board games as kids; board games when I was a kid were mostly terrible

Risk, Life, Sorry

They're not great games

I was lucky that one of my friends picked up a (very) early copy of Settllers of Catan at a gaming convention in the mid 90s

So I plyaed a lot of that and a lot of Magic, and now I love games

Dave

2:56

If you're Detroit, do you trade Boyd for pennies on the (2019) dollar, or hang on to him and figure maybe you can fix him (again)?

Ben Clemens

2:57

So I'm probably the low internet analyst on Boyd

I never really got it

I'd trade him

But I always thought he was a breakdown candidate, so if you believed in him before, I'd probably try to fix him

2:57

You k,ow real baseball is back? You’re better than simulated baseball sir. Hope you’re being paid and these are all advetorials.

Ben Clemens

2:58

Haha I'm simulating something about this season, don't worry

A friend of mine asked me whether it makes sense to save your closer for extra innings with a runner now starting on second

So I'm constructing some fake players so that I can test that

In a more controlled setting

guest

2:58

Can I choose to believe that 7 inning doubleheaders will help my team that tends to blow leads in the 8th/9th?

Ben Clemens

2:59

You should absolutely choose to believe that

There's actually a bit of truth to it as well, I think

Teams that blow leads more often tend to have worse bullpens

And seven inning games feature less bullpen time

Derek