Tampa Bay won their 18 game season series with Boston, 10 games to 8 (and took the AL East pennant by those 2 games, exactly). Past wins decide titles, but in comparison to runs scored, how much should past won/lost records be counted when making predictions? Bill James’ “Pythagorean” formula (also implemented in ESPN’s “Cool […]
Entries from October 2008
Predicting Team Strengths: Tampa Bay Rays vs. Boston Red Sox
October 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Baseball · Boston · Carl Morris · ESPN
Rays-ed from the dead
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments
As a huge Red Sox fan, I’m a bit hesitant to post the second article on the Rays in a row, especially now that they’ll be facing each other the ALCS. Hopefully it doesn’t jinx the Sox. This is an article I wrote for the Harvard Independent, our fifth article published in their weekly newspaper. […]
Tags: Baseball