I hope jadarm will forgive me for this post… It’s just that I have a thing about trying to remember to check predictions… What good are predictions that nobody ever checks? I don’t think jadarm did badly… and he offered plenty of qualifications for that 92 wins for the Braves quasi-prediction. He told me in private conversation that he would be tickled if the Braves got within 6 games of that – and they did!
Anyway, if I can get table formats to work on this thing, here’s the best summary I can give on jadarm’s predictions versus the end-of-the-season-minus-a-tie-breaker-or-two reality:
| 2009 finals | Jadarm |
| American League | |
| East | |
| New York | New York |
| Boston | Boston |
| Tampa Bay | Tampa Bay |
| Toronto | Toronto |
| Baltimore | Baltimore |
| Central | |
| Detroit | Chicago |
| Minnesota | Cleveland |
| Chicago | Detroit |
| Cleveland | Minnesota |
| Kansas City | Kansas City |
| West | |
| Los Angeles | Los Angeles |
| Texas | Texas |
| Seattle | Oakland |
| Oakland | Seattle |
| National League | |
| East | |
| Philadelphia | Philadelphia |
| Florida | Atlanta |
| Atlanta | New York |
| New York | Florida |
| Washington | Washington |
| Central | |
| St Louis | Chicago |
| Chicago | St Louis |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee |
| Cincinnati | Cincinnati |
| Houston | Houston |
| Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh |
| West | |
| Los Angeles | Los Angeles |
| Colorado | Arizona |
| San Francisco | Colorado |
| San Diego | San Francisco |
Not bad… perfect score on the American League East. Other folks left some predictions in the comments… I’ll leave it up to them to evaluate.
I’ll take it I guess. Still thought I might have been closer.
I picked 16 our of 30 teams correctly in their respective divisions and out of the 14 that I missed only half of those was by more than one spot (ie; 2nd place team actually wound up in 4th)
I will study harder during this offseason and will try to do better next year.