Royals fans have a love-hate relationship with projection systems. They love to hate them. This is particularly true of the PECOTA projections which are, funnily enough, named after - but in no other way related to - former Royals infielder Bill Pecota. In 2014 and 2015 PECOTA didn’t particularly like the Royals and the Royals completely blew the projections out of the water both years.
For the record, PECOTA was quite generous to them last year with a 66 win projection. The Royals finished the year with a cool 58 Ws.
But there are a lot of other projection systems out there.