MLB Deep Cut
Deep Cut
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How to play
One question, five slots, and a scale that pays you for the name nobody else would have reached for: the most obvious answer is a single and a genuine deep cut is a home run. The round is scored in total bases. Five outs — a right answer from outside the scoring pool is not one of them, it is credited and said so.
A bet against your own instincts: the first name that comes to mind is the one worth least.
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Boston Red Sox players who drove in 1,000+ runs
42 in the scoring pool · the rarer the name, the bigger the hit
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Rarity is an obviousness estimate turned upside down — how little known a player is next to the others who answer the same question. Nobody has been asked anything.
How to play MLB Deep Cut
One question, five slots, and a scale that pays you for the answer nobody else would reach for. The most obvious correct name is a single; a genuine deep cut is a home run. The round is scored in total bases. You get five outs, and a correct answer from outside the scored pool is not one of them — it is accepted, credited and said so, because a right answer is a right answer.
Strategy & tips
- Do not lead with the famous name. The first man you think of is the one worth the least.
- Work from the edges of the question: the one-season cameo, the late-career stop, the man remembered for something else.
- A wrong guess costs an out, so an obscure name you are unsure of is a genuine gamble — which is the game.
- Five slots and five outs means you can afford to be wrong as often as you are right. Spend that.
About MLB Deep Cut
Deep Cut is Crowd Favourite inverted, using the same obviousness estimate turned upside down — so the two games agree by construction about which players are obvious. As there, nobody has been asked anything here either: the rarity number says how little known a player is next to the others who answer the same question. The scale is relative to the day's question rather than absolute, which is the only honest way to read it — on a list of MVPs, being the least famous MVP is not the same thing as being obscure.
Frequently asked questions
How is the score worked out?
Each answer's rarity pays a hit — single, double, triple or home run — and the round totals those as bases.
I named a real one and it was not scored. Why?
He answers the question but sits below the bar the round is scored on. He is credited and does not cost you an out; he just does not fill a slot.
Is the rarity based on how many people named him?
No. It is an estimate from our own recognisability scoring, not a count of anybody's guesses — no play data and no panel of people are involved anywhere in it.
How many outs do I get?
Five, matched to the five slots. That is deliberately loose: this is the one game that asks you to reach for a name you are not sure about, and three outs would teach you to name the five most obvious men instead.
Statistics come from Major League Baseball and cover every player since 1871, including the Negro Leagues, which MLB recognised as major leagues in 2020.