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Saturday, August 27, 2005
If You Thought Dirtbag Games Were Long...You Were Right  Boyd Nation (Boyd's World) did an interesting analysis of the average duration of Division I games last season. Turns out that the average for all Division I games is 2 hours, 42 minutes...well under the MLB average of just over 3 hours (which Boyd, probably correctly, attributes to TV time considerations). It also turns out that Long Beach State games averaged 3 hours, 7 minutes...the 11th longest average time in D-I. In fact, every Big West school (except Pacific) made the list of the 25 highest average length (all over 3 hours). The Big West Conference had the longest average games for conference matchups in all Division I, at 3 hours, 11 minutes. Boyd theorizes that "[t]here's probably a weather factor at work here, since it's easier to take your time when you're not freezing." While he may be right (though night games at Blair Field in February and March aren't exactly sweltering), I have another theory. When listening to internet play by play originating from Baylor, Wichita State, and others, I have often heard commentary that west coast pitchers work "deliberately." They are being polite. They work slow! The way I see it, this comes in 2 forms. Many times, pitchers will throw over to first base 7 or 8 times. During the same at bat. It's too bad there are no stats kept on the number of times pitchers throw over to hold runners during games. The 2nd factor is the time between pitches. This is not limited to Long Beach or the Big West. 19 of the 25 teams on the longest average game list hail from 4 states: California, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. And the 4 conferences with the longest league games are, in order: Big West, Pac10, West Coast and Mountain West. Clearly the length of the games has more to do with the style of play out west than it does with our fabulous weather.
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