NERD Game Scores for June 25, 2017

Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric forefather Rob Neyer, and expanded at the request of nobody, NERD scores represent an attempt to summarize in one number (and on a scale of 0-10) the likely aesthetic appeal or watchability, for the learned fan, of a player or team or game.

How are they calculated? Haphazardly, is how. An explanation of the components and formulae which produce these NERD scores is available here. All objections to the numbers here are probably justified, on account of how this entire endeavor is absurd.

Most Highly Rated Game
Colorado at Los Angeles NL | 16:10 ET
Anderson (61.0 IP, 88 xFIP-) vs. McCarthy (69.0 IP, 93 xFIP-)
For the third consecutive day, the author’s haphazardly constructed algorithm identifies a Rockies-Dodgers contest as the day’s most promising. That’s, in part, due to each club’s proximity to the top of the division. By the coin-flip method — which seems to best approximate how the human mind conceives of postseason contnetion — Colorado and LA feature a roughly 20% and 50% chance, respectively, of winning the NL West — so, not decisive in either case. Reality suggests that the probabilities aren’t quite so close. As everything everywhere suggests, however, the human mind has little use for reality.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Los Angeles NL Television.

Another Brief Note
Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features Houston at Seattle, starts at 16:10 ET, and can be accessed by means of this hyperlinked text.

Complete Schedule
Here’s the complete and also sortable table for all of today’s games. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and the rest of the internet. Note that calculations both for team and game NERD scores feature adjustment for postseason odds that increases as season progresses. Read more about those adjustments here and here.