PECOTA Projected Standings are up, and PFM

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PECOTA projected standings (BPro)
Published 2/16/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
PECOTA projected standings (BPro) We’ve kept this a little under the radar, but the first version of the PECOTA projected standings are fired up and ready to go. For the most part, these numbers conform pretty well to conventional wisdom. In the American League, you have five teams fighting for the four playoff slots, and it looks like the Tigers and Indians — whom we have dead-even at 89-73 — will fight the most compelling battle, as both the Red Sox and Yankees are just a hair ahead of them. And there’s really not anyone who’s all that close to breaking into that hegemony, ...

PECOTA projected standings
Published 2/16/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
Sorry for the ridiculous amount of relatively short posts of late …. but this is a great area for some weekend discussion. Nate Silver has his (PECOTA’s) projected standings up at BP (here’s his post discussing them). PECOTA has San Diego at 83-79, which is 3rd in the NL West. The Dbacks and Dodgers are tied with 86 wins (well below Sheehan’s .570 wp, by the way). The Padres are projected at 700 runs scored and 685 runs allowed. I ran that through Pythagenpat and got 82.6 wins — I’d assume the projected standings are ...

Saturday Morning Rangers Notes
Published 2/16/2008 by Joey Matschulat at Baseball Time in Arlington
... being the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, of course - are getting exactly what they want: attention. And I refuse to devote any more of mine to this useless waste of journalistic garbage. I make it a point to try not to tear into the Metroplex’s sports media contingent terribly often, as I honestly feel that would reflect rather poorly on myself. But good grief. Long live the Hardline. ● Baseball Prospectus’s PECOTA projected standings have been published, with the Rangers registering at 74-88 - or 15 games behind the first-place Los Angeles ...

Baseball Prospectus Projects The Standings
Published 2/16/2008 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... As for the NL, the Mets take the East.  The Cubs win the Central, while the D'Backs and Dodgers tie for the West.  The wild card would be the Brewers.  BP's Nate Silver discusses the standings a bit more here. ...

Read: BP Projects Mets 1st In NL East
Published 2/16/2008 by D.J. Short at MetsBlog.com
... In BP’s Unfiltered, Nate Silver writes, “The Mets really might be the best team in baseball, regardless of what league they happen to play in.” ...

Baseball Prospectus Picks the Yankees to Win AL East
Published 2/18/2008 by Greg Cohen at Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog
A few days ago Baseball Prospectus released their PECOTA projected standings for the 2008 season. They predict the Yankees will finish first in the AL East with a 96-66 record, with the Red Sox projected to finish second, and win the wild card with a record of 93-69. From BP's Unfiltered: In the American League, you have five teams fighting for the four playoff slots, and it looks like the Tigers and Indians — whom we have dead-even at 89-73 — will fight the most ...

Olney: Yanks Will Be A Surprise Team & Overachieve
Published 2/29/2008 by WW Staff at WasWatching.com
Click here to see the video. If I'm doing my math right, Buster is saying that the Yankees could win around 108 games this season. For the record, PECOTA does not agree with Olney.

PECOTA Projected Standings - Yankees are # 1
Published 3/2/2008 by Ross at Yankee Stadium Insider Blog
UPDATE: Projected standings have been revised American League, ranked by projected 2008 record East W L RS RA New York Yankees ...