So Close to $500 It Could Practically Smell Me

Although playing fantasy baseball tends to pervert one's sense of the game into individual achievements, maybe I do know more about real baseball than I think as I finished 88th out of 838 folks who took part in Baseball Prospectus's Predictatron 2007. You can read my predictions below--I had to pick the final number of wins for every team and the playoff teams and the WS winner. I had Boston over Arizona for the World Series, so did pretty well there. Let's not talk about how much I blew it with Seattle, Washington, Cleveland, and Anaheim. Still, getting within 2 wins of the final tally for 9 teams seems pretty darn good. Oh, the Mortal Lock picks go like this--one for each league, have to be either over 90 or under 72 wins, every win you're off the final total you get penalized double.

Team	Your Guess	Actual	Difference	Prediction Notes	Score	Playoff Points
ANA	83	94	11		11
ARI	92	90	2	League Champion	2	+2 +4
ATL	86	84	2		2
BAL	76	69	7		7
BOS	92	96	4	Mortal Lock World Series Champion	8	+2 +4 +8 +16
CHA	78	72	6		6
CHN	82	85	3		3
CIN	81	72	9		9
CLE	84	96	12		12
COL	81	90	9		9
DET	86	88	2	Made Playoffs	2
FLO	70	71	1		1
HOU	78	73	5		5
KCA	65	69	4		4
LAN	86	82	4		4
MIL	82	83	1		1
MIN	85	79	6		6
NYA	94	94	0	Made Playoffs	0	+2
NYN	90	88	2	Division Series Winner	2
OAK	85	76	9	Division Series Winner	9
PHI	88	89	1		1
PIT	71	68	3		3
SDN	89	89	0	Made Playoffs	0
SEA	72	88	16		16
SFN	72	71	1	Mortal Lock	2
SLN	84	78	6	Made Playoffs	6
TBA	72	66	6		6
TEX	81	75	6		6
TOR	87	83	4		4
WAS	58	73	15		15
TOTAL SCORE:				+1000	162	+38