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Baseball Prospectus’s annual PECOTA projections have been unveiled and once again, the Atlanta Braves are projected to have a ...
PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is BP’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past ...
Once again, the computer models don't seem to think much of the Cincinnati Reds chances in '24. "The computer doesn't play ...
2004 PECOTA Weighted Mean Projections are available for Baseball Prospectus Premium subscribers to download. Last year at this time, when we were first unveiling PECOTA, I was besieged with questions ...
It’s been a long time since PECOTA liked the Detroit Tigers, and the 2021 season is shaping up to be no different. The famed projection system from Baseball Prospectus was released this week and ...
Baseball Prospectus released its PECOTA projections for the 2024 season this week. Although there are still a number of prominent free agents available, it's time to see how all 30 teams stack up.
PECOTA expects the Tigers to go 75-87 this year, three games worse than they finished in 2023. That sounds bad, especially for a team that many fans expect to reach .500 for the first time since ...
True to form, Baseball Prospectus released on Wednesday its forecasted standings courtesy of PECOTA, the community's best-known projection system. While BP has dropped the "deadly accurate" tag ...
For any stathead or sabermetric fan, the annual release of Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA player projections brings a combination of joy, excitement, and maybe some hatred towards the system itself.
The 2020 Dodgers earned what was by far the best preseason projection in PECOTA’s 18 years of existence: 102.5 wins. The baseball season did not include 162 games last year, but the team won at ...
The PECOTA projections for the 2024 Cincinnati Reds are wrong. They are running off of incomplete information. If you are wagering on win totals based on the PECOTA projections, you'll take the ...