They say the game of baseball isn’t played on paper. You can’t just crunch the numbers and spit out who will win. You need everyone to perform at their best, keep a good bill of health, and even have some luck to get to the Postseason.
But if we did play the game on paper, your Milwaukee Brewers are officially the NL Central Division champions according to Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA Projections!
Every offseason, Baseball Prospectus does their PECOTA Projections. PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is Baseball Prospectus’ way of projecting the ability of a team using the predicted most likely outcomes for each player.