Monday, April 25, 2016

As our predictions 2016 MLB work

During the MLB last year play-off, we present our Baseball Elo and patrons the best of each group in the playoffs and World Series to take a look. Today we publish two interactive with similar dimensions: our MLB predictions 2016 upcoming games preaudición and show the possibilities of each team in the playoffs and win the World Series, and the complete history of the MLB, the successes and failures of each tells long franchise history.

Thanks Retro Sheet we the game results and box scores collected in 1871 and used a classification system Elo based and to create predictive advantage to integrate baseball field model, the margin of victory, travel, recreation and - most importantly - the starters. Indexes also adjusted the park and the effects of time and the fact that the favorites are more likely to win in the playoffs than in the regular season.

Elo is a simple, but elegant system that can be adapted and adjusted constantly to integrate the available data. In our system, Elo baseball, each team has a rating of (the average is around 1500), and after each game, the winning team earns some Elo points, while the losing team will lose the same number of points. The number of points will be redeemed on the possibilities of our model base gave each team to win the game and the margin of victory; a gain of a large strange result in a greater exchange points Elo this victory for a favorite, and the margin of victory in the stock market.

Before each game, also set the score of each team on the basis of whether it has the advantage, how far it traveled in the game, the number of days they had and is expected to start with jug.

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The advantage of playing at home is worth 24 points ELO in our model and travel adjustments, and the rest are worth 5 points each about 1 ;. These three components are combined "home, traveling and" section in the image above - 2

Krug adjustments may start for the team to have a material impact on the pre-qualification and the odds. For example, in June 2000, Pedro Martinez has a value of about 109 Elo - points in the Red Sox at every start, which corresponds to a 15 percent higher is to their chances of winning the game 3 This means Martínez scored 109 points more. than the average pitcher for his team (or even a little more, since its opening has already been included in the overall team classification).

To create this Launcher settings, use a version of the game proposed by Bill James scores Tango Tiger (and some of us modified) pitching isolate performance. After each game, the pitcher scored the game is calculated as follows:

47.4 + 1.5 + outs strikeouts - 2 trips * - * 2 Results - Short 3 * - 4 * runs

We maintain a moving average of the scores of games for each Jar Jar to produce their score 4 a list of pitchers with the highest score in history, the dates on which peaked and bonus corresponding Elo 5:.

FIRST GIVEN NAME FRANCHISING DATE SCORE THROWER ADJ SCORE.
Pedro Martinez BOS 08/06/2000 78.0 108.6
Randy Johnson ARI 16.05.2000 71.8 83.3
Greg Maddux ATL 19/07/1995 71.8 67.3
Roger Clemens GATE 07/28/1997 70.6 75.3
Vance Dazzy BOY 05/05/1929 69.7 76.3
Curt Schilling ARI 4.7.2002 69.1 64.3
Bob Gibson STL 05/25/1969 68.6 76.6
Dwight Gooden NYM 06/05/1986 68.5 74.4
Frank Tanana LAA 06/24/1977 68.4 72.2
Bob Feller CLE 08/04/1940 68.4 64.7
Jake Arrieta CHC 07/10/2015 68.3 63.4
Sandy Koufax BOY 14/10/1965 68.1 64.4
JR Richard HOU 04/30/1980 67.7 67.1
Pete Alexander PHI 07/13/1915 67.7 64.7
Johan Santana MIN 05/10/2004 67.6 66.9
Kevin Brown SD 08/10/1998 67.4 65.4
tom Seaver NYM 04/26/1972 67.3 72.8
Lefty Grove OAK 06/13/1932 66.9 64.1
Mike Scott HOU 05/18/1987 66.9 61.4
Ron Guidry NYY 09/15/1978 66.9 62.4
All times tips Jar Jar based on score

The Launcher score is a moving average of the various game results Launcher

Source: Retro Sheet

Pitchers in the above table is recorded only once in their absolute maximum. If a list of several tips per player, Martinez, Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens occupy 18 of the top 20 places.

In addition to the scores of each jar, we have a ground game score for each team - that - based on the results of the games every pitcher on this team. Elo setting each pitcher throws compared to music on your computer; provide high-level pitchers media team the team gain an advantage when they start, and jugs below average team the team a penalty. Note that in the above image, a pitcher an overall score another pitcher can have but a minor adjustment Elo; usually this means that his team had a better rotation and more games and game results started the largest share of the overall average team.

These are launchers in 2016, which provide the biggest boost when starting team:

FIRST GIVEN NAME EQUIPMENT META ADJ SCORE.
Clayton Kershaw BOY 66.0 63.5
Jake Arrieta CHC 67.8 57.2
Zack Greinke ARI 59.4 43.1
Kenta Maeda BOY 60.7 38.5
José Fernández MIA 57.3 36.5
Gerrit Cole PIT 57.1 35.8
Dallas Keuchel HOU 58.4 34.6
Chris sale CHW 60.0 32.3
David Price BOS 57.9 28.6
Madison Bumgarner SF 58.3 28.4
Best Bowler in 2016 by the soundtrack of his team adaptation

Pitcher scores are games on April 24

Sources: Retro Sheet, ESPN

Since the first pitcher bonus two teams are additive, if the first page aborted two pitchers and can be very large, if a strong thrower a small pitcher over. The biggest change of all time according to our results Launcher 137 points Elo 1997 swing was back when Randy Johnson (87) against Ricky Bones (-50).

Our evaluations in 2016 preseason team are a mix of the late 2015 from the ratings of the season (average income of a third party) and four projection systems (PECOTA, zippers and Steamer Davenport). Our results Decanter 2015 preseason team scores launcher our bench last season with departures on the same four projection systems use.

We used Monte Carlo simulations to play the season thousands of times, how many times to see any team in the playoffs or won the World Series. As with the other provisions, we run "hot" simulations, which means that changes in the rating of a team in each of the simulated results based on simulation, including the premium for playoff victories. For games in which a pitcher is not yet known, we assume an average power pitcher will play.

Our entire history of MLB uses a simplified system that will take you to the little Elo pitchers, travel or relax 6 As expected considering., Is updated after each game.

It is too early, but the boy looks pretty good. We hope that the rest of the season and hope that you will join us.

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