Playoff odds tell how likely an MLB team will win the division, wild card berth or win the World Series. FanGraphs simulates each season 10,000 times to generate the probabilities.
Playoff odds tell how likely an MLB team will win the division, wild card berth or win the World Series. FanGraphs simulates each season 10,000 times to generate the probabilities.
While both PECOTA and FanGraphs project the Phillies and D-backs to grab the first two NL Wild Card spots, they disagree on how the third spot will shake out. PECOTA projects the Mets to clinch the berth by a fairly convincing margin at 84-78, three games ahead of the next closest NL...
Here’s how they now sit via the standings and our Playoff Odds: NL Wild Card Race TeamWLW%GBProj WProj LROS W%SOSDivWCPlayoffs Braves 60 51 .541 0 88.7 73.3 .564 .487 18.9% 63.5% 82.5% Padres 61 52 .540 0 87.9 74.1 .548 .494 11.6% 63.6% 75.2% Diamondbacks 61 52 .540 ...
Wild Card 91 91 The big surprise here is the Braves/Phillies flip-flopping in the East. It would be interesting to go back through the FANS projections for the two teams and see who the FANS are higher/lower on than other projection systems. In the Central, the Cardinals have the tight...
Geographical considerations play a role in assigning each of the 30 MLB teams to their respective divisions. Throughout the regular season, teams within their designated divisions go through competitions. As the teams aim to secure playoff standings and advance to the postseason. The postseason ...
The Wild Card Game in Major League Baseball might be dramatic with a Game 7 feeling, but it typically defeats the purpose of a 162 game season. Both the American and National League Wild Card Game feature matchups between teams that finished six games apart in the standings. That is a sign...
After the six division leaders have been identified for playoff seeding, the remaining team with the best record from each league is awarded a wild card spot to bring the total number of postseason teams to eight. The race to be a wild card team often has its own standings, but it...
The third-year Rockies finished one game behind the Dodgers in the West and one game ahead of the Houston Astros in the wild-card standings to win the right to face Greg Maddux and the Atlanta Braves in Tuesday night’s opener of the division series at Coors Field, where a crowd of 48...
Wild Card Round In the American League, the A’s will visit the Royals and the Pirates will play host to the Giants. These are only one-game playoffs, so a quick nine innings will decide who moves on to the division series in each league. The A’s and Royals are both low scoring ...