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Mar 29, 2021 · The Phillies will miss the playoffs for the 10th consecutive season. Someone will still find a way to blame Gabe Kapler, Scott Rolen, Maikel Franco or Mike Schmidt for it. The Marlins will be worse, but they will be better, if you get what I mean.
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Thanks to Retrosheet, we’ve collected game results and box scores going all the way back to 1871. We used that mountain of data to create an Elo-based rating system and predictive model for baseball that accounts for home-field advantage, margin of victory, park and eraeffects, travel, rest and — most importantly — starting pitchers. What’s Elo, yo...
Before every game, we adjust each team’s rating based on whether it has home-field advantage, how far it has traveled to the game, how many days of rest it’s had and which pitcher is slated to start. Here are the particulars of those first three adjustments: 1. Home-field advantage is worth 24 rating points. For games played without fans in attenda...
Starting with the 2022 season, Model tweak April 6, 2022 our model incorporates openers — pitchers who start a game but are expected to face only a few batters. In an upcoming game, the starter is projected to be an opener if 1) he has at least five pitching appearances in his career as a starter or reliever; 2) he hasn’t started and gone more than...
Before a season begins, we have to come up with a set of starting ratings for each team. Our preseason team ratings are made up of two components: 1. 67 percent comes from the team’s preseason win projection according to three computer projection systems: Baseball Prospectus’s PECOTA, FanGraphs’ depth charts and Clay Davenport’s predictions— all sc...
Now it’s time to turn these team and player ratings into probabilities, tracking how often each team makes the playoffs or wins the World Series. To do this, we run Monte Carlo simulations, playing out the season thousands of times. As with our other sports forecasts, we run these simulations “hot,” meaning that a team’s rating doesn’t stay static ...
Our Complete History Of MLBinteractive contains historical Elo ratings stretching back to the 1871 season. These charts use a simplified Elo system that doesn’t take pitchers, travel or rest into account. Between seasons, it simply reverts the previous season’s ratings toward the mean by one-third, rather than using projection systems to set presea...
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Apr 1, 2021 · 2021 MLB season predictions - From division champs and World Series picks to MVP and Cy Young favorites - ESPN. Can the Dodgers repeat? Are the Yankees the team to beat in the AL? Will Mike...
Nov 2, 2021 · FiveThirtyEight's MLB forecast uses a pitcher-adjusted Elo model to project the winner of every game and the chances that each team will win the World Series.
Mar 31, 2021 · Baseball returns this week for what we can all hope is a more normal season after last year’s abbreviated 60-game, expanded-playoffs pandemic campaign. Accordingly, we’ve launched our 2021...
Mar 31, 2021 · Our Eye on Baseball team will lay out our predictions for order of finish by division here along with playoff picks and, of course, the World Series. Might we get a New York vs. Los Angeles...
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Dec 31, 2020 · With so much still uncertain in our world, let’s just stick to baseball with these nine bold predictions for the 2021 season. 1. Only two of the 2020 division winners will repeat.
