Thursday, October 4, 2012

Cy Young Predictor

So apparently ESPN has a Cy Young prediction formula, and using that formula it is possibly to objectively determine the most likely winner of the Cy Young Award for the years before the award existed. So naturally, I decided to check my own choices for Cy Young Award winners from 1876-1955.  The results were that, of 149 award winners that I selected, 105 of them matched up with the Cy Young predictor, meaning that 70% of my choices can be objectively verified.  Of course, I don't know exactly what criteria goes into the predictions, but overall I'd say not bad.