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Summer Forecast: West standings

ESPN.com

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

On Tuesday, we forecast the East, and today it's the West. One note of explanation, as covered yesterday: The order of finish is more important in these predictions than the exact number of wins and losses. When 53 individuals vote, they will almost never all agree that one team will win as many as, let's say, 65 games, or that another team will win only 20 games, even though we know these things happen frequently. Why? Because these are extreme results that happen when pretty much everything ...

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