Dan – is there something off about the playoff probabilities projected by Baseball Prospectus and Coolstandings? If these projections are based off of some sort of season-long pythagorean-derived estimate of team strength, would they miss out on teams that radically change their rosters? For example, a projection based on Red Sox season long stats might assume a rotation with Beckett as well as a hybrid of Buchholz and Bedard contributing to run prevention instead of Miller and Weiland, while a projection of the Rays might assume Fuld in left rather than Jennings. Projections as late as last week having the Red Sox at 99+% probability seemed strange at the time.
Dan – is there something off about the playoff probabilities projected by Baseball Prospectus and Coolstandings? If these projections are based off of some sort of season-long pythagorean-derived estimate of team strength, would they miss out on teams that radically change their rosters? For example, a projection based on Red Sox season long stats might assume a rotation with Beckett as well as a hybrid of Buchholz and Bedard contributing to run prevention instead of Miller and Weiland, while a projection of the Rays might assume Fuld in left rather than Jennings. Projections as late as last week having the Red Sox at 99+% probability seemed strange at the time.
not sure of the answer but i can see why the rating is so high
if the red sox go 8-7 over their next 15 games the ray will have to go 12-4 over their next 16
which include 7 games vs the yankees
thats insane. i guess the bo sox who were favored this year to win roughly 95 games may not get it.