Does anyone else throw Thursday day baseball out of your equations?

**roasthawg** · 07-22-10, 01:08 PM

I've thought about looking at a days-of-the-week angle before because of stuff like this (always seem to win on certain days, lose on others) but in the end chalked it up to coincidence.

**Maverick22** · 07-22-10, 01:35 PM

If you give me some time, i can try to verify this

If the theory is indeed true, know that i will you a beer

**thechaoz** · 07-22-10, 02:06 PM

I'd be very interested to see if there is a statistical difference. Maybe attitudes of players/weather or just coincidence?

**username474** · 07-22-10, 02:21 PM

I have never thought about throwing a day of the week out. But I do NOT think you a crazy for doing it. I have thrown out individual statistics and team stats in blow out games, bad weather games, ect.

**skrtelfan** · 07-22-10, 04:44 PM

Why would Thursday getaway days be any different than Wednesday ones?

**Wrecktangle** · 07-23-10, 07:53 AM

For a while, Saturday games in the NFL had a very poor HFA, enough where even non-db guys would notice it. I tried to understand why but couldn't get anything plausible (days of rest, differing training patterns, etc). Then it went away. When you are filtering thru a lot of games make sure you understand that occasionally you will "find trends" that just happen. With more games in MLB, you will find more stat flukes.

**Ruifgalmeida** · 07-23-10, 08:30 AM

it is just superstition on your part, Thursday is a normal day like any other.

**LT Profits** · 07-23-10, 08:53 AM

The OP is talking specifically about Thursday afternoon "getaway day" games. But that would beg the same question: Why should results be any different than Wednesday, Sunday and the occasional Monday wraparound getaway day games?

**Maverick22** · 07-24-10, 04:39 PM

Originally posted by Bluehorseshoe

I don't know what it is about Thursday day baseball, but it doesn't adhere to any angle that's positive for me. What is it??? I understand it's a get-a-way day, but Sundays are also a get-a-way day and they aren't effected the same way Thursday games are.

I went back three years, weeded out Thursday day games and dramatically improved my record on something I regularly do.

Anyone agree or am I talking out of my ass again?

How is your data represented? If you are using a MySQL Database I might be able to help you figure this out.

I have a table called "DIM_Time" which a bunch of general date information including weekday for every day from '04-'11. So if you are using mysql, its a simple join on the date to map a given gam's date to its corresponding day of the week. And you can do your [further] analysis from there

Let me know if you want the script/table export and I will try to attach it here.

-Mav