Sports Predictions

A few weeks ago we celebrated an outstanding two-week stretch for our MLB Swarm, one that produced a 45-15 record across 60 games in two weeks. Apparently the baseball gods were not amused, and we followed that with a mediocre…

Tuesday’s weekly Baseball Swarm set off some fireworks a day early by posting a 14-1 record across all 15 games the group picked. That’s the single best result for any baseball swarm session since Unanimous began predicting games back in…

Sometimes the weekly MLB swarm comes out of a swarm having provided a set of predictions across a wide spectrum of levels of confidence. There are other times -- like today -- when the swarm doesn’t show a lot of…

The pennant races in the American League in 2018 look like they may end up as an amazing, expensive hand of high-stakes poker. In the East, the Yankees and Red Sox are fighting tooth and claw for first place, swapping…

As the month of June draws to a close, the Major League Baseball landscape has taken on a stable shape. Some surprising early successes (the star-crossed New York Mets, for instance) have fallen by the wayside. Others – such as…

Major League Baseball is a game in which probabilities and variables stack up on top of one another into exponentially complex arrays. It is why predicting the outcomes of baseball games is so difficult, and why the sport lags behind…

The MLB Swarm has been on a bit of a tear in recent weeks, posting a 45-15 record picking winners over the last four swarms and a 82-38 record since Memorial Day weekend. Naturally, to put up those kind of…

The 2018 MLB Season has been a record-setter in the American League. When the Seattle Mariners went 20 games over .500 over the weekend, it marked the earliest time in the post-expansion era that four teams in one league were…

Much of the talk in Major League Baseball this season has centered around the alarming rate at which hitters are striking out. Indeed, many baseball purists have fretted that the game is reducing itself to its “three true outcomes” –…

Baseball is a game made up of odd and quirky statistics, some of which defy easy explanation. For instance, the narrow run differential for the Seattle Mariners suggests that they should be a team just barely above .500, instead of…