Formula for the Mets

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This from the NY Daily News, after the Mets lost 11-0 to the worst team in baseball:
“We have to get on the field, figure it out, work it out, we have to do everything possible as a staff to get us on track and remain on track or we might have some tough decisions to make,” said Manuel, who met with GM Omar Minaya, Tony Bernazard and other front-office members following the game. “We have to find a consistent formula at some point and we have not found that yet.
Perhaps they might want to consider this formula:
Sucking = Losing
Not Sucking = Winning
I’m not quite sure how to express that in purely mathematical terms (although I’m sure someone here can) but that would certainly seem, to me, the way to go.
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11 comments on “Formula for the Mets”

  1. livescience.com/strangenews/080401-baseball-model.html
    Study Predicts Baseball’s Top Teams in 2008
    By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer
    For the past seven seasons, Bruce Bukiet of the New Jersey Institute of Technology has used a mathematical model to predict how many games each Major League Baseball team is likely to win. The model computes the probability that a team will win a game against another team given who is hitting, who’s on the bench, who the starting pitcher and relievers are and which team has the home field advantage.
    Bukiet, an avid New York Mets fan, predicts there will be clear frontrunners in the American League (AL) this year. Aside from the Yankees, Sox, Tigers and Angels, the other teams will be “lagging well behind,” he said.
    The National League (NL) has a slightly murkier forecast: “The National League should see much tighter races, with the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves winning the East and the wild card respectively, while in the Central and West Divisions, only the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants have no real shot of making it to the postseason,” Bukiet said.
    Oh well, back to the drawing board…

  2. Andrea Thompson made that prediction? Geez, the Psi Corps must really be overrated these days…
    TWL

  3. As a long-time Cubs fan, I still remember the days during the 1960s when both the Mets and the Cubs each routinely lost 90-100 games every year. In these days of baseball parity, it may be hard to imagine that in 1962 (and nearly again in 1966), BOTH teams lost more than 100 games — and they were in the same league!
    So it was a sad day in 1969, just when I thought the Cubs were going to shed their “we suck” caps and win the pennant, the (@#$!!?? Amazin’) Mets came out of nowhere in September and won it all.
    And despite the fact that that was almost 40 years ago, a part of me is still secretly gleeful whenever the Mets play sucky. How sad is that?
    Even more sad is the fact that, in a city where supposedly all true baseball fans either root for the White Sox or the Cubs, but never both, I actually DO root for both.

  4. And then there is the legion of Cardinals fans, who were told during spring training “Don’t expect much out of these guys, maybe 4th place if things work out”. We have ten guys on the DL, and yet…there we are.
    It’s hopefully driving the Cubs nuts that they keep winning and winning and those dámņ Cards just stay right behind them…

  6. “Sucking = Losing
    Not Sucking = Winning”
    Peter: I’ve been hoping that the M’s would discover formula for years now.

  7. It’s hopefully driving the Cubs nuts that they keep winning and winning and those dámņ Cards just stay right behind them…
    As a Cubs fan, I can tell you right now that they shouldn’t even wait to give LaRussa the Manager of the Year award.
    The Cards could tank the rest of the way – and there would be much rejoicing 😉 – and he’d still have earned it.

  9. “Sucking=Losing
    Not Sucking=Winning”
    Actually, I think to most it is the opposite:
    Losing=Sucking
    Winning=Not Sucking

  10. As a Cincinnatian transplanted to NYC, it did me good to see “the worst team in baseball” run roughshod over both New York teams in the last week.

  11. Hahaha! At least you’re not trying in vain to root for my home teams. Detroit: We’re so North of Canada that the only thing we have going for us is hockey.

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