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Baseball Musings
March 02, 2007
Looking for Help

A reader send me this request, which I pass on to the audience:

Thanks so much for your help! I am looking to put together a 2007 Major League Baseball Pool/Game that has each player predict the final standings for each MLB division as well as every team's regular season record. Based upon a player's regular season's prediction they then choose divisional match-ups and winners, LCS match-ups and winners, and the World Series match-up and winner.

I was trying to think of a point system that would suffice. For example, if you guess the winner of the NL East you get 5 points; if you guess the 2nd place finisher of the NL East you get 4 pts, 3rd place 3 pts, 4th place 2 pts, last place 1 point. Then I was thinking if you guess a team's EXACT regular season record you get 10 points, a record within 5 games of the real record you get 5 points, 6 games 4 points, 7 games 3 points, 8 games 2 points, 9 games 1 point, then 0 points for anything worse....

Then there would also be point levels allotted to correct playoff predictions........

It can get a little complicated and I was wondering if any of your readers is involved with anything like this or if anyone knows of anything like this that is offered online.

If you can help him out, leave a message in the comments.

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Posted by David Pinto at 05:02 PM | Fantasy Baseball | TrackBack (0)
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Instead of points for good guesses, how about doing penalties for bad records. If you predict that a team will win 100 games and they win 70, that's 30 points against you.

Larry

Posted by: Larry Macdonald at March 2, 2007 06:18 PM

BaseballProspectus.com runs a contest like this: Predictatron. It's similar to the format that Larry just described. You predict each team's win total for the season. You start with 1000 points and you lose a point for every win you are off. You also have to pick the winners of each playoff round and you can earn points back for getting those right. You also get daily standings based on projected records so you can follow how well you are doing. There were just a shade under 900 participants last season. Here's the site for the rules:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/pt/rules.php

And I am not just mentioning it because I won it last year.

Vince

Posted by: Vince at March 3, 2007 01:24 AM

The winner gets a signed photograph of the best commissioner in sports!

Posted by: bud selig at March 3, 2007 06:25 PM

Interesting....i will definitely take a look. Thanks for your help guys!

Posted by: Brian at March 4, 2007 12:12 PM
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