GM's OFFICE: Deriving MLB standings from our Opening Day projections
Apr 1 2021
Happy Opening Day!
Brent and I are geared up to write our annual Opening Day running diary today—our several-year tradition of dropping in on each of the 15 games and providing some tips, observations, and nuggets from what we see. We'll have that transcript here in the GM's Office tomorrow.
In the meantime, earlier this week I appeared on SportsBookWire's "Bet Slippin'" podcast to help them out with their MLB preview shows. To prep for that show, I did something that we used to do around here, but haven't dusted off in several years: I took our current player projections and used them to derive projected MLB team-level performance.
This isn't super-scientific: I just took team-level runs scored/runs allowed data from our projections,...
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