PLAYERS:
Adam Dunn,
Paul Konerko,
Carlos Quentin,
Francisco Liriano,
Aaron Harang,
Tim Redding
TEAMS: Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Dodgers
TEAMS: Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Dodgers
To access the 2012 PECOTA spreadsheet, click here.
Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Had a bad cold, nevertheless
Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,
With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)
Here is Belladonna, The Lady of the Rocks, The lady of situations.
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see. I do not find
The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.
—T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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BP’s projection system, at its core, follows the same basic principles as it has before. We begin with our baseline projections, which start with a weighted average of past performance, with decreasing emphasis placed on seasons further removed from the season being projected. Then that performance is regressed ...
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