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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."
that's right, Yankee haters, if you want to be the next boy-genius statistician, just predict the Yanks will win the World Series every year. You'll be batting > .500 too! Impress your friends, woo the women, be the first on your block to break the elusive 500 barrier.
I've developed an algorithm that plots how little anyone with a three digit IQ could possibly care about a boring prediction about a boring team in boring fucking sport.