{"id":1545,"date":"2016-10-28T14:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/?page_id=1545"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:45:14","slug":"predictions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictions &#8211; 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Here are my pre-season predictions for the 1999 Major League Baseball Standings. The list contains the teams in predicted order of finish. My method was mostly &#8220;educated guess&#8221;, so I probably won&#8217;t do as well as <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/predictions-1998\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080;font-size: large\">last year<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: large\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last season, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Baseball Prospectus<\/span><\/u><\/a> ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/news\/19990201brooks.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\"> study<\/span><\/u><\/a> analyzing the quality of projections made by computer programs and by fans. I am participating in this year&#8217;s project and have put <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/jhrs-baseball-prospectus-predictions-1999\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">my projections<\/span><\/u><\/a> online.<\/p>\n<pre>                   NATIONAL LEAGUE\r\n         WEST           CENTRAL       EAST\r\n       Dodgers          Astros        Braves\r\n       Giants           Cardinals     Mets\r\n       Padres           Reds          Expos\r\n       Diamondbacks     Cubs          Phillies\r\n       Rockies          Brewers       Marlins \r\n                        Pirates     \r\n                              \r\n\r\n                   AMERICAN LEAGUE\r\n         WEST          CENTRAL       EAST\r\n       Angels          Indians       Yankees     \r\n       Rangers         Royals        Blue Jays    \r\n       Mariners        Tigers        Red Sox\r\n       Athletics       White Sox     Orioles    \r\n                       Twins         Devil Rays \r\n\r\n\r\nWild Card: NL: Mets      AL: Blue Jays\r\nWorld Series: Yankees over Dodgers\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back to my <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/jhrs-baseball-plate\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">baseball page<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Send comments to me at <a href=\"mailto:john.rickert@rose-hulman.edu\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">john.<\/span><u><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">rickert<\/span>@rose-hulman.edu<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Here are my pre-season predictions for the 1999 Major League Baseball Standings. The list contains the teams in predicted order of finish. My method was mostly &#8220;educated guess&#8221;, so I probably won&#8217;t do as well as last year. Last season, Baseball Prospectus ran a study analyzing the quality of projections made by computer programs and by fans. I am participating&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/predictions\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1545\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}