Alright folks, let me tell you about my deep dive into baseball stats. I was curious, like REALLY curious, about who holds the record for the most RBIs in a single postseason.
So, naturally, I started digging around. First thing I did was hit up the usual sports stats sites. You know the ones – they’re plastered all over the internet. I was sifting through playoff records, trying to find a clear leader in RBIs.
Turns out, it wasn’t as straightforward as I thought. Some sites had slightly different numbers, and I wanted to be ABSOLUTELY sure. So I started cross-referencing, comparing data from multiple sources. It was like being a detective, piecing together clues!
Then I decided to get a bit more hands-on. I downloaded some raw data sets of historical baseball stats. It was messy, full of abbreviations and codes, but I started cleaning it up. I’m talking about using some basic spreadsheet functions to filter for postseason games and calculate RBIs.
It took a while, lemme tell ya. I spent a good chunk of an evening just wrestling with formulas and data formats. But eventually, I got a decent table together with postseason RBIs for a bunch of players.
After all that data wrangling, the name that kept popping up was David Freese. I remember watching that 2011 World Series – crazy stuff! I saw that he had a whopping 21 RBIs in that single postseason run.
So, after checking multiple sources and doing my own data crunching, I’m pretty confident in saying that David Freese does indeed hold the record for the most RBIs in a single postseason with 21. It was a fun little investigation, and I learned a thing or two about baseball stats in the process!
And the biggest lesson? Don’t always trust the first number you see online. Do your own homework!
