78-84
Three game pythag gain over last season. Call me an optimist.
78-84
Three game pythag gain over last season. Call me an optimist.
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch that’s over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.”
--Ted Williams
Super suck teams play more.Originally Posted by pedro
Punishment.
Go Gators!
76 - 86
I hope it's the other way around!
74-88
76-86
75-87
"Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs. Are you kidding me? Playoffs? I'm just hoping we can win a game, another game. " Jim Mora
85-77 We all have to think positive for once in a while in the thread of prediction.
GO REDS.........................
Can you post in the first thread who came closest last year (since this is the 5th annual contest)?
Rob Neyer: "Any writer who says he'd be a better manager than the worst manager is either 1) lying (i.e. 'using poetic license') or 2) patently delusional. Which isn't to say managers don't do stupid things that you or I wouldn't."
89 wins. Probably not enough for the wild card. Well, there's always 2007.
82-80. The first of 10 straight winning seasons.
Gimme 81-81. .500 will never have looked so good...
78-84. Better, but not good.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
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Originally Posted by Eric_Davis
2005 Actual Record: 73-89
2005 Pythag Record: 75-87
2005 PECOTA: 76-86
Closest to Actual:
M2: 74-88
MWM: 72-90
deltachi8: 72-90
RedFanAlways1966: 72-90
Closest to Pythag:
Ravenlord: 75-87
Raisor: 75-87
alloverjr: 75-87
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch that’s over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.”
--Ted Williams
70-74 Wins 72-90 Record
"...You just have a wider lens than one game."
--Former Reds GM Wayne Krivsky, on why he didn't fly Josh Hamilton to Colorado for one game.
"...its money well-spent. Don't screw around with your freedom."
--Roy Tucker, on why you need to lawyer up when you find yourself swimming with sharks.
84-78 (+/- 3)
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