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Friday, August 14, 2009Will the Red Sox win the AL East?Posted by John BeamerI'm playing around with a playoff odds calculator that I've created in excel — all will be divulged in an upcoming article. Anyway, to test drive my calculator I thought I'd take a quick look at the AL East. As of yesterday the standings were: American League East Pwins Diff NYA 72 43 .626 0.0 67 5 BOS 65 49 .570 6.5 65 0 TB 61 53 .535 10.5 64 -3 TOR 54 59 .478 17.0 61 -7 BAL 47 67 .412 24.5 49 -2 Despite the Bombers being a cool 6.5 games ahead, in terms of Pythagorean wins they are only a couple of games better. Interestingly in THT's Season Preview we have the Yankees winning 100 games and the divsion (the Sox were second on 98 wins). At the time we calculated the Yankees' odds of making the playoffs were 56%. Props to David Gassko — if the Yankees play to their current win record they'll notch their 101st victory on the last day of the season. Based on current standings and our expectation of true talent at the start of the season, what are the odds of Red Sox trumping the Yankees? Have a look: NYA 82.3% BOS 14.4% Hmmm — as expected the fat lady is warming up her voice. John is an unashamed glory supporter having followed the Atlanta Braves since 1991. He blogs the Braves at Chop-n-Change. He welcomes comments, criticisms and suggestions via e-mail CommentsLeave a comment:Commenting is not available in this weblog entry. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||