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Quick Post on MLB Probabilities (100k Monte Carlo Simulations)

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:06:16 +0000

I just did a quick run of 100,000 playoff simulations and wanted to share the quick results. I will try to get some finer detail or maybe look into a few changes, but here are the raw World Series champion results.

Detroit — 4950
Baltimore — 18592
LA Angels — 31876
Kansas City — 9058
Washington — 19768
San Francisco — 4246
St. Louis — 1662
LA Dodgers — 9848

Oakland, Pittsburgh slight favorites in Wild Card probabilities

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:37:58 +0000

With the MLB Playoffs beginning this evening, I figured it was time to test my rankings and pull out the old probability calculator. I created the MLB Ratings based on a simple least squares NLP Optimization that I have discussed before.

Oakland at Kansas City

The Royals are in the playoffs for the first time in ages and they get to host a game. Unfortunately, they didn’t seem to have a home field advantage during the regular season, so I am not sure how much this helps (although in reality we can assume it does, at least a little). The numbers say the A’s are the better team by almost 0.7 of a run (per game, for the season). I show them as a 63.5% favorite.

Generic Sports Series Probability Calculator

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:32:28 +0000

With the baseball playoffs upon us, I have decided to start building a simulator to determine series outcomes once they start. I decided to make this as generic as possible. This simulator is not specific to baseball or even to a particular series length.

Obviously, the first parts to think about I addressed in my previous post relating to home field advantage, ratings and the probability a team would win a single game versus a specific opponent.