Cy Young Award winners ... predicted by mathematicians!!!

[namja]

Mathematicians Predict Cy Young Winners

LiveScience Staff
LiveScience.com
Mon Nov 7, 3:00 PM ET

This year's Cy Young award-winners in baseball will be announced Nov. 8 (American League) and Nov. 10 (National League) by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, whose members vote on the award.

But mathematicians Rebecca Sparks and David Abrahamson, a husband-and-wife team who teach at Rhode Island College, couldn't wait to find out who wins the pitching award. So they developed a math formula that predicts which pitchers will place first through third in Cy Young voting.

They predict Chris Carpenter of the St. Louis Cardinals and Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees will snag the coveted awards.

Sparks and Abrahamson announced their prediction today. They had presented their model in the April 2005 issue of Math Horizons, a magazine published by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).


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[chrisih8u]

I wonder how retarded writers fit into the equation.

[lemieux66c]

Well, if they have to teach at RIC they can't be that intelligent. URI is where it's at!!

[j123vt_99]

read this last night... good work with the AL Cy Young.. :sarcasm: their model was correct, but then they tried to get creative with assigning values to players

[AndyCapps]

Here's hoping they're 50% correct.