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Obscure Sports Quarterly: Links of the Day: In case you forgot, Steve Phillips is an idiot
The Big Lead: The Roundup: Helluva Voicemail, Brenda Warner, and Tebow
Epic Carnival: THE MIDWAY: MLB PREDICTIONS & BAD TRADE OFFERS
Deadspin: Blogdome: Rocky Mountain Low
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog: Vegas Watch: Evaluating April MLB Predictions
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Redsauce I've always wanted to take a look at this, but I can never seem to remember what their predictions were (other than John Kruk predicting that the Red Sox AND Yankees would both win over 130 games). Thanks & great analysis!
Links of the Day: In case you forgot, Steve Phillips is an idiot
Obscure Sports Quarterly —
... Ever wonder how accurate all those people who made baseball predictions back in April did? Well, Vegas Watch did their homework and found out. Anyone who watches ESPN can guess who had the worst predictions. (Vegas Watch) ...
The Roundup: Helluva Voicemail, Brenda Warner, and Tebow
The Big Lead —
... Revisiting preseason baseball predictions by ESPN’s finest. (Vegas Watch) ...
THE MIDWAY: MLB PREDICTIONS & BAD TRADE OFFERS
Epic Carnival —
... A look at some of the best and worst individual MLB predictions from the pre-season, as well as whose overall predictions were most accurate. (Vegas Watch) ...
Blogdome: Rocky Mountain Low
Deadspin —
... • How far off were those preseason predictions? [Vegas Watch] ...
Vegas Watch: Evaluating April MLB Predictions
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Vegas Watch: Evaluating April MLB Predictions ...
Advantage: Statgeeks
skyking162 —
... VegasWatch has a great analysis of pre-season team win predictions, comparing a bunch of different writers, baseball experts, ESPN “experts”, and computerized systems. I’ll get right to the point: ...
The News
Mondesi's House —
... --One of my favorite sports is looking back at the "experts" picks after all is said and done, so I really enjoyed this article. Steve Phillips was the worst, you say? I find that impossible to believe. ...
Baseball Today: Wednesday, Septemeber 26
Projo Sox Blog —
... LOOKING BACK: The blog Vegas Watch looks back at the best and worst of April predictions and notes ESPN's Steve Phillips picked the Red Sox to win 82 games. Reminds me of an e-mail I got from a Red Sox fan in late March that read, "Stick a fork in 'em. I do not see this team finishing any higher than third in the division." ...
FanHouse's Top Five: It's Time to Pay the Piper, Baseball People
FanHouse —
... 1). Vegas Watch leads off the festivities today with an insightful roundup of various baseball analysts' preseason predictions. Two things you thought might be true: ...
Ten Things I Didn’t Know Last Week
The Hardball Times —
... , "Young players are unreliable and inconsistent, while veterans are steady and dependable" I don't know that Jeff has dispelled every single one of those myths, but they sure make for thought-provoking web browsing. How well the predictors predicted Vegas Watch put together an analysis of how well several of the major baseball writers predicted this year's pennant race . I'm glad he didn't include anything from me in there. I'd probably make Steve Phillips look good. The most extreme splits of the year I've been hard at work on the ...
Tooting my own horn
DoolittleBrothers.com —
... series, he links to this review of preseason projections over at VegasWatch. Well VegasWatch didn’t review ...
The Sage and the Stupid
Bugs & Cranks —
... September 27th, 2007 At the beginning of each baseball season, everyone makes predictions. Some are lucky enough to make them in private or orally, where they can deny their existence. Bugs & Cranks writers are not so fortunate. One of my least favorite things about the sports media is that they tend to always think they re right. They make predictions , then either deny them or reverse them to fit the current situation. In the spirit of everything that s right with blogs, join me as I look at the good, the bad, and the unbelievably funny pre-season predictions of the Bugs & Cranks staff. Sage: The worst offseason bust will be Barry Zito of the Giants ...
