What's the best team computer vs. computer? Has anyone done the number crunching on this? I plan to be betting a buddy on which team will win and need some advice. Not including all-star teams.
Thanks!
ultimate7 did at least one "watch season", in which he had the computer play a bunch of games in Watch Mode and recorded the results... I'll try to dig up the thread.
Here's the thread (http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=5237.0)
Final standings:
Team W L W/L R RA Dif R/G RA/G
Det 26 10 0.722 550 420 130 15.28 11.67
Cal 23 13 0.639 529 435 94 14.69 12.08
NL 23 13 0.639 463 403 60 12.86 11.19
Bos 22 14 0.611 443 401 42 12.31 11.14
AL 21 15 0.583 518 459 59 14.39 12.75
Min 15 21 0.417 426 465 -39 11.83 12.92
NYM 15 21 0.417 405 469 -64 11.25 13.03
SF 13 23 0.361 474 542 -68 13.17 15.06
STL 12 24 0.333 389 477 -88 10.81 13.25
Hou 10 26 0.278 348 474 -126 9.67 13.17
R=Runs
RA=Runs allowed
Dif=Run differential
R/G=Runs per game
RA/G=Runs allowed per game
WOW. This is wonderfully detailed. Thanks for the info. I thought Detroit was the toughest. A little shocked by the all-stars rankings. :) :)
You should note before putting too much money down that the games are at least somewhat unpredictable - California knocked off Detroit in the World Series of this "league", and even the worst teams won around a third of their games. You'd have to comb through the game-by-game results to see if there were any trends of a lesser team being especially tough against a better team, although with only 4 games against each team, I don't know how useful that would be.
One thing I just noticed that seems strange to me is how the best teams had so many fewer runs allowed than the worst teams, despite the fact that they don't appear to have any better pitching staffs. I suppose that comes from the 10-run rule - good teams will pick up more 2-inning 10-0 wins, keeping that number artificially low.
Yeah, lack of substitutions kinda bones Boston in that... too bad