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Those systems don’t hate the team, but a lot needs to go right for them to be above .500

Wizards fall short against the Bucks Share this story Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images It’s okay. The Milwaukee Bucks are a title contender and one of the best teams in the NBA. They have an elite player in Giannis Antetokounmpo (whose name I just spelled correctly without having to look it up for the first time ever), two excellent “second star” types (Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton), and a bunch of solid pros who are productive and know how to play. Missing Middleton basically evened things up a bit with the Wizards — over the past month, the Wizards have had an elite performer ...

Here’s How Many Wins the Colorado Rockies are Projected to Get The Rockies are off to a pretty rough start already in the 2021 season, as they currently sit tied in last place in the NL West with a 1-3 record. With some major player moves taking place during the off-season, and the way the new season has already begun, many fans are wondering just how well the Rockies will fare this year. It's impossible to predict the future, and with 162 games a lot can happen, but there's always pre-season projections to use as an indicator of how the Rockies rank among the rest of the MLB teams.

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Baseball Prospectus has released its yearly record projections for each Major League Baseball team. If you’re not familiar, they use a system called “PECOTA,” which stands for “Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm.” It’s a system that uses sabermetrics in an attempt to predict the performance of teams and players. By no means is the system perfect, as it only correctly picked two out of the six division winners correctly in last season, but it’s certainly fun to look at the projections. In 2020, the Yankees were projected ...