It’s not a trap!

FO says there is no such thing as a trap game.  It’s a retroactive description rather than a preemptive prescription

It turns out that good teams win trap games just as often as they win other games. Contending teams went 389-85 overall in trap games, good for a .820 winning percentage (Table 1). In all other games against sub-.500 teams, the same contenders posted a .815 winning percentage (Table 2), meaning they were actually more likely to win trap games than other games.

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