Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Give it Up, Braves Fans!

This is a cool site that plays the remainder of the baseball season a million times, and presents the results statistically, to let you know each team's chances of making the playoffs.

After the first week or so, it looks like Baltimore and Toronto can start planning for next year - there's only a 10 percent chance that either one will make the playoffs this year. And you Twins fans are in the same boat: forget the 5 straight years above .500, and winning the division 3 out of 4 years - your chances of getting into the playoffs are a little below 5 percent. And Philadelphia, picked by many to be a power this year, has got a 12.7 percent chance of appearing in the postseason.

Conversely, good news for Colorado fans, whose 5-2 start makes them almost even odds to make the playoffs. Similarly St. Louis, currently parked in 5th place in their division, still have an 80 percent chance of competing for World Series rings.

Really makes you wonder why they even bother to play the season. Probably just to get a chance to see Barry Bonds finally expolode.

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