Mathematician Predicts Yankees To Dominate

anthemaniac writes "Computerized projections in sports are nothing new, but Bruce Bukiet of the New Jersey Institute of Technology has developed a model that seems to work pretty well. He projects how many games a Major League Baseball team will win by factoring in how each hitter ought to do against each pitcher in every game. His crystal ball says the Yankees will win 110 games this year, a pretty safe bet, many might agree. But he also projects all the divisional winners. He claims to be right more than wrong in five of the past six years."

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Biased

[Thirdsin]

This guy is a jackoff. He lives in Jersey... last I checked, oh wait, yea Yankee bandwagon fan territory.

For my logical arguement, his calcs cannot possibly account for trades, injuries, or the fact that every god damn player ever in the MLB does not have many seasons that are close enough to eachother in terms of production to be predictable... This guy needs to go calculate the chances he gets hit by a bus on the Jersey Turnpike...

btw BoSox all the way this year :-P

Steinbrenner and Bush

[Dracos]

Just as president Bush ignores Congress, so does George Steinbrenner ignore the salary cap rules of Major League Baseball. The yankees literally buy a spot in the playoffs every year.

Regression toward the mean

[tyrr]

I guess, your "mathematician" is not a big fan of "regression toward the mean". Very unfortunate.
Please, stop calling charlatans mathematicians. Mathematicians do know that luck cannot be predicted or replicated.

Re:But... Yankees Suck!! Alot!

[haplo21112]

George and the whole Yankee's Organization ruined Baseball, there are so many teams now that have so little conceivable chance of winning the world series that the sports watching public just isn't interested anymore. Its time for a salary cap.