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WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Diamondbacks Farm TeamsGameday ThreadsDiamondbacks NewsDiamondbacks Game ReportsFang FoodThe “Challenge The Narrative” GameNew http://www.padresfanproshop.com/authentic-brad-hand-jersey ,77commentsIt can be difficult to move past your biases. EDTShareTweetShareShareThe “Challenge The Narrative” GameCharles LeClaire-USA TODAY SportsIt’s not easy being a fan. Namely, being a fan is a very emotional attachment to a team and/or player(s). And while it is absolutely, 110% acceptable to be emotional about your team and have your emotions dictate your feelings, thoughts, and everything else about being a fan, the problem is that emotions cause one to become irrational about their fandom. And this irrational attachment creates some strong biases that really cloud our judgment. The lasting result of this is that the overall fan perception of a player (aka the “narrative”) doesn’t necessarily match up with the player’s actual performance or value. In the majority of the cases, it’s probably very close. But sometimes, you’ll get cases where a bad player is widely loved by a fanbase or a good player is widely hated by a fanbase. In these cases Tony Gwynn Jersey , there are generally intangible factors that come into play here. Specifically: biases. Biases come in a lot of flavors and it would be impractical to discuss them all. However, there is one bias in particular that stands out in being a fan: Human beings are much better at remembering bad events than good ones. This has a direct impact on baseball fans: we often tend to remember when a particular player failed in a key situation than all the other times where he contributed positively to the team. This can drastically impact our perception (or the narrative) of the player, especially if that player wasn’t well-liked to begin with. This creates a problem as this bias is widely prevalent, but it seems, at least to this author, to be more present in baseball than in any other sport. Baseball is built around failure - a hitter succeeding in getting a hit more than 30% of the time is rather rare, for example - and baseball fans tend to have very strong personal attachments to certain baseball players as the sport allows for gratuitious amounts of face time for almost every player. These factors lead us to attaching a very large portion of our individual opinions of each player to a very small number of events. Just think about it: a full-time position player can receive over 700 plate appearances in a single season, yet how many of those can you recall? Probably only a handful Dave Winfield Jersey , and likely mostly to be negative plays. In a sport that is defined by extremely large samples (there is a reason why baseball plays 162 games each year), we’re assigning our opinions in extremelly small samples. Therein lies one of our biggest biases. To address some of our individual biases, we’re going to play a game. It’s called the “Challenge The Narrative” game. Below are several examples of baseball stat lines in a variety of situations (from single season to multiple seasons). Some might include extraneous information, such as salaries. Below each example will be a poll for you to give your opinion based off the information you just read. To make this as authentic as possible, please try to make your decisions based off the information alone and not trying to figure out who each player is. Please try to avoid spoiling anything in the comments, but feel free to talk about the situations. The purpose of this game isn’t necessarily to change your mind about each player; that opinion is largely already cemented. The purpose is to make you aware of how these biases tend to come in to play in our decision making about a particular player. Being aware of your biases is extremely important as it lets us making better decisions in the future. And this is very important in many things besides just baseball. We will follow up with the results of the polling and go into more detail for each example next week.So, let’s play the game! Credit to Jack Sommers for some of the examples below. Over 4 consecutive seasons, Player A had a .286/.362/.485 line with 91 HR Rollie Fingers Jersey , 77 SB, and plus defense in the outfield. This combined for 16.1 fWAR over 4 seasons. How would you rate this player? Longtime Braves manager is in the hospital due to a possible stroke"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Talking Chop User’s GuideTalking Chop PodcastAround the NL EastBaseball Analysis PrimerCox family, Braves release statement New,21commentsLongtime Braves manager is in the hospital due to a possible strokeEDTShareTweetShareShareCox family, Braves release statement Brett Davis-USA TODAY SportsBraves Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox was taken to an Atlanta hospital Tuesday night after suffering a possible stroke. WSB-TV first reported that Cox was ill and taken to the hospital for a possible stroke. That report was later confirmed by MLB.com’s Mark Bowman. Cox’s family and the Braves released statements Wednesday afternoon. Statement from the Cox family: “We want to thank all of you who have sent their well wishes or said a prayer. We know the power of Braves Country and we hope those prayers and positive thoughts continue as Bobby heals. You don’t know how much your support means to Bobby and to our family”Statement from the Atlanta Braves: “We know no one stronger or more determined than Bobby Cox. Our thoughts and prayers are with him as he recovers. We look forward to seeing him soon and would like to thank the baseball community for joining together to support our dear friend.”Cox took part in pregame ceremonies before Monday’s home opener against the Cubs.