2007 Predictions Revisited

World Series, scmorld schmeries.

What we all really care about is: Who won the YFSF 2007 Staff Predictions?

Let’s find out!

A point system seems to be the fairest way of determining who was most accurate in the totality of the predictions. I (cribbing from a friend of mine who devised a similar system when he and I bet a dinner on it last year — and then promptly lost the sheets containing our predictions) came up with this:

• 5 points for each team’s correctly predicted finish.
• 5 points for correctly predicting the wild card (so 10 points total when combined with the correct second-place prediction).
• 10 points for correctly predicting the division winner (so 15 points total when combined with getting the placement correct).
• 10 points for correctly predicting order of all teams in a division (on top of points for each team and division winner, so nailing a five-team division would net 45 points. A wild card finisher in that division would make it 50).
• 15 points for correctly predicting each LCS participant.
• 20 points for correctly predicting each World Series participant.
• 50 points for correctly predicting World Series winner.
• 25 points for correctly predicting Rookie or Manager of the Year.
• 30 points for correctly predicting Cy Young.
• 40 points for correctly predicting MVP.
• 15 points if predicted award winner finished second or third in the relevant voting.

This seems to match the greater number of points with the predictions representing the largest pool of possible teams/candidates, as well as providing bonuses if one managed to correctly predict the finishes of each team in a division (tougher than it seems).

Here’s what we predicted at the beginning of the year, with the points gained in parentheses: