re: Game of Inches.

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This is pure bullshite. For every "we shoulda coulda woulda won that game" there is and equally and opposite "we shoulda coulda woulda lost that game". Purple and gold bias only allows you to remember times we coulda won.

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Two things are true when you play close games. Your team is very close to being much better in the W-L column in conference play, Your team is also very close to being much worse in the W-L column in conference play. but you should also consider if a team is losing or winning close games at a higher rate.

Let's see how many games you lost or won by small margins. If you look at close games in conference play LSU lost more close games than they won by 2 to 1.

1 run W-2, L-4
2 run W-2, L-5
3 runs W-1, L2

So 2 runs or less, lost 9 and won 4, 3 runs or less lost 11 and won 5. If LSU just flips all the one-run games, they are now 12-15. If they flip 1 & 2 run games they 15-12.