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"Projection systems are not perfect models, and as the White Sox have shown, there are important variables that are not being measured as well as they could be." I'm not someone who believes that the PECOTA people are somehow biased against the Sox, I just think that a system like this is not suited to predict whole team outcomes. Even if they started taking into consideration the White Sox, frankly, unbelievable training staff, there are always going to be other variables that pop up that can't all be accounted for.
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Who has argued this point at all? Just because BP and PECOTA aren't 100% perfect all the god damn time doesn't mean they still aren't the best.
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I like BP, but what does make them the best?
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Right and it's only been blown out of proportion by the fervent anti-intellectual crowd whose hell bent on beating a drum and making sure everyone knows that BP has been "so wrong" about the Sox in the past whereas any sensible person would have looked at their projections, said "77 wins? Wow, that sucks," shrugged their shoulders, and gone on with their day.
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Gee, I must have missed those posts.
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![]() No. The article did a really good job of explaining that away. It's not interesting, really. Nor is it reason to assume the White Sox have anything but extremely long odds of winning 90 games. |
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And explaining a flaw in the system does not explain it "away." |
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Actually, it's not. You can't flush the whole thing down the drain just because they can't seem to figure out one of 30 franchises on a consistent basis.
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By the way, I'm not defending BP, just logic. |
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