Espn's playoff %????

[ellsburyforMVP]

I'm having a very hard time how they come up with their %'s.....

 

Ok so Washington isn't a great team,but at 12-4 they only have a 49% chance..

But the dodgers who also aren't a great team have a 67% chance.....

Arizona at 4th place in their division have a 41% chance.....

Now the AL east....The Yankees at 10-7 have a 72% chance while Baltimore at 10-7 has a 16% chance....and finally the sox at 6-10 have a 26% chance????

Now I understand the sox have questions in the pen,which would have their % lower....but the Yankees have scored the 2nd most runs in baseball and are only 10-7, so one would think they have a few issues themselves.....does 4 more wins and a pitching staff with a few questions of their own really equate to a 46% better chance to make the playoffs???

 

Anyone have any insight as to how they come up with their %'s?

[RedSoxNC84]

The dodgers have a 67% chance? wow

[mvp 78]

The dodgers have a 67% chance? wow

 

They have decent pitching un a s*** division. Them making the playoffs isn't remote.

[jung]

I don't know what to think about the ESPN %'s. I have said in several threads though that I do think the gap between the haves and the have nots is going to be even wider this year than we have seen it in other years. There are in my opinion a few more haves than we have seen in other years as well. The Sox are clearly one of the group of haves. The question for the Sox will be winning enough games to keep up.

 

I think some of the records we are going to see by year end are going to be staggeringly bad for some of these teams because they are going to have such a hard time competing with the better teams especially in the AL.

[ellsburyforMVP]

Well the sox won last night and their % dropped from 26 to 25.9 lol?.........

[crowdseats]

These are the most arbitrary numbers at this point of the season. There must be 1000s of possibilities. All 3 top AL East teams can make it this year

[SoxSport]

It's ESP-NY. So take it from there.

 

I read they are the highest priced non-premium cable station. They get $5 from every cable bill.

[ORS]

It's ESP-NY. So take it from there.

 

I read they are the highest priced non-premium cable station. They get $5 from every cable bill.

I think they get that in the home broadcast market, which is the biggest to draw from, but not nationally, because the only real appeal is broadcasting games, which they can't do out of market.

[SoxSport]

I think they get that in the home broadcast market' date=' which is the biggest to draw from, but not nationally, because the only real appeal is broadcasting games, which they can't do out of market.[/quote']

 

 

I read Comcast and Verizon get 5 bucks from their cable customers in their packages for ESPN. Subscribers don't know this because the charges are hidden in cable packages. You pay a 100 bucks a month for many channels you don't watch.

 

In the Northeast, the network games are usually NY teams...while these games are blacked out in NYC. It's all about advertising revenue--the rates increase with market size.