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And the winner is... Richard Hiney, esq! The artist formerly known as LSJ had the lowest overall average of our human participants. The FanGraphs Depth Chart projections had a slightly lower score than all the LSB entries in a proper demonstration that predicting the future is hard and the refined systems with years of effort put into them generally do it better than individuals.
Here’s a link to the big spreadsheet with everything in it and all the tabulated results.
2018 Community Projections Final Results - Top 10
Rank | Commenter | Total |
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Rank | Commenter | Total |
System | FanGraphs Depth Charts | 1.57 |
1 | Richard Hiney, esq | 1.60 |
2 | thegreatjared | 1.67 |
3 | ok.fester | 1.72 |
4 | KevinWC | 1.80 |
5 | hefe300 | 1.82 |
6 | TxPower | 1.83 |
7 | slc ranger | 1.84 |
8 | Rouginator | 1.85 |
9 | Lil Nubber | 1.85 |
10 | kinsler61 | 1.86 |
System | 2017 Season | 1.87 |
System | LSB Average | 2.11 |