I would argue that back-to-backs are sort of similar to doubleheaders in baseball in that it's really difficult to win both games, and so having both games at home for us is probably the worst set-up because it's hard to see us winning both home games, making it more paramount than it already was to snag at least one of the games in Sunrise. The fairest situation would've likely been splitting the back-to-back between the two cities.
That said, I'm mostly in agreement here. If that's the schedule, then find a way to deal with it.
This is one of those logical fallacies that's popular because people are bad with statistics.
It's hard to win ANY set of two games because you have to ... win two games. Which is harder than winning just one game. The odds of your team sweeping a double-header, assuming an even matchup, would be just one in four. The other possibilities are a split (two out of four) and the other team sweeps (one out of four). Same as if you picked any set of two games separated by a day or weeks or a month, assuming of course an even matchup.
That's logically why people fall into this trap. If you want actual stats, here you go:
Doubleheader Sweeps | MLBSweeps.com
If there were truth to the claim that it's particularly difficult to sweep a doubleheader, the stats would skewed vs their expected values. That is, rather than 50% of the time you get a sweep and the other 50% of the time you get a split, it would be the case that splits happen at a higher rate and sweeps at a lower rate. But that's not what those numbers show -- 50.87% of the time it's been a sweep, and 49.13% of the time it's been a split. Which is basically 50-50.
So again, stop with the whining people. It's a bad look.
