There's been a study I thought of a bit ago that I've been wanting to do, and instead of making a new thread I thought I'd post it here.

Nate Silver did a study on clutch hitting, where he took the clutch scores of players on odd and even years, and if clutch existed the graph he made should be linear, and good clutch hitters will be good in both odd and even years. He found a small relationship, but it got me thinking.

What if the type of year (odd, even) that they had a worse clutch score, they also performed worse overall? For example, if I averaged the clutch scores for every player and in the type of year that they had a better clutch score they averaged 50 EQR. And in the type of year that they had a worse clutch score, they only averaged 40EQR. That would mean that when you are hitting better, you also hit better in the clutch. That backs up common sense. I could then adjust the years so that the players accumulated 45 EQR in both years (odd and even), changing there clutch scores slightly, and I beleive that would strengthen the case of clutch hitting. Hopefully I would find that a stronger "R" relationship when I graph the odd and even years after the adjustment.

Of course, I may find absolutely nothing, and my theory might be proven wrong, but I'll work on it and post it on here. Any thoughts?

Edit: clutch scores would be the ones from fangraphs.