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This evening Major League Baseball heads into its penultimate weekend of games with many teams still clinging to a glimmer of postseason hopes. There are also teams that have clinched berths in the playoffs who will be vying for as…

HERE'S WHY THE COLTS / BROWNS SHOWDOWN IS A "HARD PASS" Predicting winners at the beginning of any sports season is tough even in the best of circumstances. The NFL, however, presents a unique set of obstacles that raise the…

SIX TEAM MLB PARLAY TURNS $10 INTO $250, 2,600% RETURN One of the tenets of the so-called "superforecasting" movement is knowing when to make a prediction, and when not to. Our football and baseball swarms take this principle into account,…

Friday night the Royals finally ended Cleveland’s historic 22-game winning streak with a comeback one-run victory. That loss by the Tribe was also significant for the MLB Swarm. Of the eight highest-confidence games the swarm picked that night, the Cleveland…

  As we enter the closing weeks of the Major League season, there’s still plenty of interesting baseball to be played. Both the American League and National League have division and wildcard races that look as if they’ll go down…

More than any other major professional sports league, the English Premier League is a bit bound by the discrepancy between its haves and have-nots. The so-called “Big Six” teams of the Premiership -- the three big London clubs, the two…

The first week of the NFL season is in the books, and it brought plenty of surprises. The Chiefs and Raiders both looked like legitimate playoff contenders. The Patriots and Seahawks both looked a little wobbly. And we’re not sure…

Tonight’s schedule of MLB games could be historically significant. When the Cleveland Indians host Detroit, they’ll be trying for their 20th straight win. To illustrate how rare that feat is, the major league record is 21, set by the Cubs…

Early season sports predictions are pretty difficult – just ask New England Patriots fans. At the start of a situation when making picks on the outcomes of games, a forecaster is working with a lot of imperfect data. A prognosticator…

  More than two weeks ago on August 23rd, the lowly New York Mets beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2. About 45 minutes after that game ended, Boston finished up a convincing 6-1 win over the Indians in Cleveland. That’s the…