Major League Baseball, Second Half Forecast
With the conclusion of the All Star break, the Power Rank offers a weather forecast for the second half of the season. Let’s start in the AL East, the division in which Major League Baseball still...
View ArticleCardinals Romp Over Dodgers
St. Louis completed a sweep over the Los Angeles Dodgers this weekend, taking four games with a +13 run differential. The Dodgers have been an outlier all season with a great record but poor ranking,...
View ArticleWhen baseball executives meet physicists.
What happens when baseball executives show up at a physics and computer science conference? I had the opportunity to find out this past Saturday at the Sportvision Pitchf/x conference in San Francisco....
View ArticleIs St. Louis safe from an upset against Pittsburgh? A 2013 MLB playoff preview
The St. Louis won more games than any other NL team this season, winning the Central by 3 games over Pittsburgh. Moreover, they’re ranked 2nd in The Power Rank while Pittsburgh is 9th. It should be...
View ArticleChampionship series win probabilities for the 2014 MLB playoffs
It’s an embarrassment, but I’m not going to hide from it. All the favored teams by my numbers (and the markets) lost in the division series. And it’s not like the favored teams lost in a game 7 coin...
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