[Exhibitman]

You are conflating short term and long term statistics. It is not unusual for a player to have a series above average. In 1976, for example, Munson hit .529 and Bench hit .533, which was way above either man's season average.

My point was that Jackson had a seesaw series where the dips just happened to coincide with games where we know the conspirators included the starters. Jackson's best performances in the series occurred in situations where either the starting pitcher was not in the conspiracy (Kerr in games 3 and 6) or where the game was out of control already (game 8). If you believe the 8MO account as to what happened behind the scenes, game 7, which was the Sox's Cicotte-led rebellion against the gamblers for nonpayment, was the other game where he played well. In the games where you would have expected him to tank, he played 20% below his career average. Does that mean Jackson threw the Series? No. But you are rarely if ever going to get a direct answer to a conspiracy to defraud. Is it another piece of circumstantial evidence? Yes, when combined with the conspiracy, the money, the gifting of the dirty money, the quotes in the contemporary papers, the grand jury indictment, and so on.