{"id":10138,"date":"2013-06-10T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2013-06-10T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:05:10","slug":"random-notes-june-10-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10138","title":{"rendered":"Random notes: June 10, 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-iain-banks-bestselling-scottish-author-has-died-20130609,0,4817211.story\"><strong>LAT<\/strong> obit for Iain Banks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As best as I can tell, there has been no mention of Banks&#8217;s death in the <strong>NYT<\/strong> yet.<\/p>\n<p>At dinner Saturday night, Lawrence, Andrew, and I were talking about how bad the Marlins (and Astros) are. I remembered that someone on FARK posted a link to a site that provides updated win-loss projections for each MLB team, but I was unable to find that site in my history, on FARK, or in Google.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/7788891\/84710909#c84710909\">&#8220;DeWayne Mann&#8221; on FARK<\/a> was kind enough to respond to my inquiry with three links, which I provide here for bookmarking purposes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolstandings.com\/baseball_standings.asp?sn=2013&#038;i=1\">CoolStandings<\/a>, which currently projects Miami at 106.9 losses and Houston at 103.1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/odds\/\">Baseball Prospectus<\/a>, which has Miami at 102 losses and Houston at 99.5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/depthcharts.aspx?position=Standings\">FanGraphs<\/a>, which has Miami at 104 losses and Houston at 99.<\/p>\n<p>(As Dewayne notes, all three sites use a more sophisticated model than (winning percentage * 162). Based only on that calculation, the Marlins project out to 115 losses, and the Astros to 106. For comparison purposes, the 1962 Mets lost 120 games and had a .250 winning percentage. The 2003 Detroit Tigers lost 119 games, and had a .265 winning percentage.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAT obit for Iain Banks. As best as I can tell, there has been no mention of Banks&#8217;s death in the NYT yet. At dinner Saturday night, Lawrence, Andrew, and I were talking about how bad the Marlins (and Astros) are. I remembered that someone on FARK posted a link to a site that provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,4,14,36,16,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","category-books","category-clippings","category-loser","category-obits","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10139,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions\/10139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}