Is a team that wins four games out of twelve a bad team? There are many ways to approach this question: here’s one. In a 162-game season a team has 151 12-game stretches. Let’s look at the number of wins over those stretches. First, let’s take a really bad team: the 2015 team, for example. They had one 12 game stretch with no wins, 10 with one win, 9 with 2 wins, 17 with three wins, and 22 with four wins. So 59 of their 150 12-game stretches, almost 40 percent, have four or fewer wins. Now, let’s take a good team: 2002.
In Which I Present My Best Case For Not Panicking: Marlins 6, Braves 7.
