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BP Daily: Sorting out the playoff odds

By Clay Davenport
Baseball Prospectus

Monday, August 3, 2009

In previous years, the various versions of Baseball Prospectus' Playoff Odds Reports were slow to respond to changes in lineups. All of them required the team to start playing differently -- sometimes as a result of trades or injuries -- before any change would be seen in the playoff odds of the various contenders, and those changes would be pretty seriously depressed by the weight of all the games that had come before. This year, the PECOTA-based version of our playoff odds is being entire ...

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