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Effective in life. Hello and welcome to episode Hello and welcome to episode 2408 of Effectively Wild, a fancrafts baseball podcast brought to by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer.

Ben, how are you?

Doing well. I've given thanks. How are you?

I have also given thanks and felt gratified to do so.

Yeah. Well, we have much to give thanks for, including our reader mail.

And to forest all future messages, I must respond to the responses to one of the listener emails we discussed on our last pre-Thanksgiving episode.

Yeah.

On 2407, the, I believe, second email we answered, which was from Mark, a Patreon supporter, who suggested a zombie runner alternative where each team would play one single extra inning when the game is tied after nine.

And the winner would be determined by how quickly each team scores.

Right. So it would be first to one run, essentially. Each team would get a crack at it in the top half and the bottom half. And the winner would be determined by who used the fewest plate appearances to score.

And one of the objections that we raised was that this system could be gamed.

Yeah.

Because you could essentially put people on base in the bottom half of the 10th, I suppose.

If the team that was visiting scored in the top half of the inning in a certain

number of played appearances, you could then advance the home team's counter to more played

appearances than that by just say walking the bases loaded if you were in a certain situation.

And so it could be manipulated and we ruled it out on that basis, maybe not only that basis,

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