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ThurberMingus  ·  1842 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 3, 2019

Baseball season!

This is a chart I made of average runs scored by each team vs their opponents:

Lower right corner is good, the diagonal line is even, upper left is bad, upper right is high scoring, lower left is low scoring.

Average scores from the season openers through Tuesday.

It doesn't tell you much that the league standings don't, but I was curious what it would look like.

I put last years scores through it too. The spread condensed a lot by the end:

The Red Sox beat the Astros in the AL, the Dodgers beat Milwaukee in the NL, and then the Red Sox beat the Dodgers. The Los Angeles Angels (of Anaheim) were the middlest, and the Orioles were apocalyptically bad. (Remember the quote "everyones gonna win 60 and lose 60, it's the other 42 that matter". you have to do something very good or very wrong to be outside that range, and the orioles managed to go 47-115)