July 18, 2010

Probability of winning the division

The Cool Standings website presents the probabilities that any Major League Baseball team will win the division or wild card. They also have this available for the NHL, NFL, and NBA.

If I am interpreting their methodology correctly, they are using a Pythagorean basis in a Monte Carlo simulation. (To read more, here's an ESPN article on the method.)

Interesting...

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