A belief that certain players do better or worse in the playoffs. Posted on June 5, 2025 at 11:34:21 AM by Craig G
Or at possible game point.
Or, in light of Dania's last season, serving at game point.
To be a maestro at jai-alai analysis, the equivalent of a top grandmaster in chess, you would have to address this issue. If only to conclude that it's too tough or unreliable to use in your hcap.
These days, I'm more and more like to consult an AI for its viewpoint, and from deepseek we get:
Conclusion - Choking is absolutely a legitimate factor in sports—not just as an excuse, but as a measurable psychological and physiological response. The best athletes work as hard on mental resilience as they do on physical skills to overcome it.
Along with a statement that it's well-documented, and the psychological elements include fear of failure, overthinking, ans self-doubt.
So this all boils down to:
A - hi prob that this is a legit hcap factior
B - can it be ID'd and predicted successfully
C - if A and B are true, the realization that it is 99.9% likely that none of the sims out there, past and present, were designed to accommodate this feature.
So, if A, B, and C, then we can see that a top human can potentially outperform the computer guys in this area.
That's it then. If there is any kind of choking, or cream rising to the top in the playoffs, and so on, it is completely outside of the capabilities of jai-alai simulations such as 'The Jai-Alai Supercomputer', or the one used by Prof Skiena in 'Calculated Bets', and yes, the ones used by the experts here.
Tiger's Jai-Alai Chalk Talk
