Now that you’re armed with the secret formula, you can feel free to go out and show off at a sports bar, … or spend your time tackling something much harder… like figuring WAR or FIP stats… or the US Tax Code. Or whatever contest you were trying to monitor. Once the magic number reaches zero… you’ve clinched the division. Or you can just chuck that out and do steps 1 to 3 again, starting from the days’ current records. You don’t have to fuss around with combining wins and losses of the teams involved… just figure out which team you’re most afraid of, determine their best possible record, and then count how many wins are needed for your team - the Braves, obviously - to beat that.Įvery new day after today, you can subtract one from this number for each Braves win or for each Phillies loss. Since the Braves still have 33 to play, that’s technically possible. The magic number is listed for each team leading the division to claim the title. Win enough to get to 99 wins overall… 29 wins would do it. STEP 3: What do the Braves have to do to beat that? We know they won’t be perfect, but that’s not important. STEP 2: What is the best that Philly could possibly do in those games?ģ2-0… giving them a 98-64 record. Back in April, we wrote about five key numbers for the Astros to be. Let’s take the real-world example of the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies as the standings were on Monday morning as this was written: It was a wild and fitting conclusion to a surprising and tumultuous season for the Astros with lots of numbers to reflect that. 300 his name has to be mentioned as maybe one of the best on the team.and it seems he flies under the radar as he isnt flashy. Brantley and Alvarez all have excellent seasons but now that Tucker has a batting average neaering.
So naturally, we’re gonna throw a hat into the ring and see if we can do a little better, for it’s really not that bad. Has Tucker quietly become the Astros best player This Is a tough one since you have Gurriel. In fact, this site, while totally comprehensive, has actually muddied the waters by providing so much information that it requires several minutes of studying just to figure out what you want to know.Įven most sites that try to explain the computation often manage to take the simple and make it relatively complex. use of instant replay, In addition, Houston Astros were slated to move the AL. There are websites dedicated to this mathematical messiness. Darwin Barney's ML-record number of games without an error ended. I admit it: it seems like every year that I have to look up some site or some method for determining the “magic number” for the Atlanta Braves… eh… at least for this and the past 3 seasons that they’ve been in first place.įirst, a public service message for those who might not quite be acquainted with the lingo: the Magic Number for a first-place team is the total number of their wins and the losses of their nearest rival that are needed for the first-place team to clinch first place. So how does one easily calculate that for our Atlanta Braves. By Alan Carpenter 1 year ago Follow TweetĪs we’re about to enter September, “magic numbers” become a common part of the baseball lexicon.
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