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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 ...
Last spring, a reporter asked then-Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Dave Stewart what he thought of a baseball projection system called PECOTA, which had just forecast his team to win just 78 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Last year’s PECOTA projections from Baseball Prospectus were spot on for the Yankees. PECOTA’s simulations had the Yankees at 94.4 wins, reclaiming their place atop the American League East ...
It’s PECOTA Week. For baseball fans who track advanced analytics – at this late date, do any baseball fans NOT track advanced analytics? – it’s biggest week of the calendar year.
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 ...
Montas’ big smile quickly disappeared when he was told Wednesday that Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA system pegs the Reds’ win total at 78. “Psshht, come on, that’s low,” Montas scoffed.