As we will do each week throughout the season, we will today take a look at Accuscore's playoff forecaster to see how the previous weeks games influenced the division's playoff race. The Nationals tremendously improved their chances to make the playoffs last week as the club went 4-2.
With this their projected playoff chances jumped from 10.5 percent to 23.8 percent. Disappointingly, their chance to win the division only grew 4 percent to 10.1 percent as the Phillies continue to play great baseball.
Stephen Oh breaks down the NL East:
"Philadelphia was 5-2 which included 3 quality wins over St. Louis. The Phillies have just a 2 game lead over the Nationals but are still an overwhelming 82 percent favorite to take the NL East.
Washington is now projected for a very stro ...
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Predicting the Washington Nationals’ Playoff Chances with Accuscore 5/11
Posted: 11th May 2010 by William Yoder in MLBComments Off on Predicting the Washington Nationals’ Playoff Chances with Accuscore 5/11