We're currently 1 game out of first place with the final two games of the season tonight, and if there's a tie for first, those teams involved enter a playoff for first in the league. I applied the MDS Model to our league to gauge the "true" win percentage for each team by runs scored/runs against (adjusted for strength of schedule):
Rank | Home Team | RF | RA | Pyth |
1 | We Are Here To Drink | 200 | 80 | 0.842 |
2 | Bunting for Pitches | 181 | 85 | 0.800 |
3 | Analyze This | 170 | 87 | 0.773 |
4 | Comic Relief | 142 | 108 | 0.623 |
5 | Pitch Better Have My Money | 101 | 149 | 0.329 |
6 | Pitches Get Stitches | 72 | 125 | 0.267 |
7 | Somerset Stephanie | 74 | 146 | 0.224 |
8 | Bright Futures Pediatrics | 23 | 183 | 0.022 |
Here's the scenario: we're playing "Pitch Better Have My Money" twice, with the top 2 teams in the league, "We Are Here to Drink" and "Bunting for Pitches" also playing twice. If "Bunting for Pitches" can win one or both of those games and we sweep our series, we'll be tied in first place and will head to the playoff.
So I calculated the odds of this happening, since that scenario is very straight forward. Using our Pyth ratings to project win probabilities, we have an 87.41% chance of beating our opponent in each game (favored by 4.93 runs in each game, with a 76.40% shot to sweep them 2-0).
There's a 67.18% chance "Bunting for Pitches" beats "We Are Here to Drink" either once (in which case we would face "We Are Here to Drink") or twice (in which case we would face "Bunting for Pitches").
Assuming the two series are independent gives 67.18% * 76.40% = 51.33% chance of making the playoff.
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