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Every year a team misses the playoffs on a decimal, and every year somebody says the tiebreaker is unfair.
A margin is not a footnote
Net run rate turns the size of a defeat into currency. Batting out the overs in a lost cause is not pride, it is arithmetic.
The key points
- Losing margin counts as much as the loss itself
- A fast chase in April can decide a playoff place in May
- Batting out the overs in defeat is a rational choice
Chasing quickly when you have already won
The reverse also applies. A side that knocks off a small target in twelve overs rather than sixteen has banked something it may need much later.
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