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 ...

Flip a coin 10 times and you’ll probably come up with a combination of heads and tails. Probably. But not always. On rare occasions, you might get heads 10 times in a row. The odds against it are ...

Wins in 2024: 92 PECOTA projected wins in 2025: 80 The Guardians won 92 games and advanced to the ALCS under first-year manager Stephen Vogt last season thanks to the continued strong play of ...

For reference, we also added the notorious PECOTA projections from Baseball Prospectus. Blake Schuster: This feels like it has to be the year for the Orioles to win the division. The Yankees took ...

PECOTA and FanGraphs expected the Yankees to have the best record in the American League, and FanGraphs thought they’d win the competitive AL East by three games. Advertisement Less than a month ...

FanGraphs has the Giants finishing 81-81 and fourth in the NL West again, while PECOTA also has them fourth at 78-84. Based on those models, there's not much reason for optimism. However ...

On February 3rd, Baseball Prospectus (BP), the nation’s preeminent baseball think tank, posted the first edition of their 2025 analytics-driven PECOTA-predicted standings. In them, they forecast ...

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With Opening Day just over the horizon, teams all around the league are gearing up for another pennant chase in hopes of being crowned this year’s World Series champion. Of course, there’s ...