And your 2011 World Series Winner is…
October 17, 2011 by Mike Lynch · 4 Comments
About 30 years ago, Bill James introduced a prediction system that picked the World Series winner with 70% accuracy. He wrote about the system for Inside Sports magazine in 1982, then expounded on it in his 1984 Baseball Abstract. He developed the system in 1972 and it accurately predicted the World Series winner at a […]
Talking Baseball…A Lot of It
July 12, 2011 by Jeff Polman · Leave a Comment
Eric Weiss was in trouble. The “practicing attorney and unapologetic Yankees fan†from Scarsdale was wrapping up a 25-minute seminar called Baseball’s Greatest Postseason Series, when a handful of people in the Pacific Room of the Long Beach Hilton began to squirm. The battle he was recounting was the 1912 Chicago City Series between the […]
Bill James’ World Series Predictor Goes With…
October 26, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 2 Comments
More than 25 years ago, Bill James introduced a prediction system that picked the World Series winner with 70% accuracy. He wrote about the system for Inside Sports magazine in 1982, then expounded on it in his 1984 Baseball Abstract. He developed the system in 1972 and it accurately predicted the World Series winner at […]
Post-Season Condensed by One Lousy Day
March 25, 2010 by Gabriel Schechter · Leave a Comment
In a breakthrough that was hailed as the forerunner of even more seismic shifts down the road, a special 14-man committee put together by Commissioner Bud Selig has announced the elimination of exactly one off-day from a postseason schedule that turned last year’s championship competition into a joke. Thus it remains a joke, a bad […]
