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Some of the key participants in the 2017 World Series chase have been struggling lately. In the National League, the Cubs, Nationals, and the injury-riddled Dodgers are all trying to right their respective ships before the pennant races slip too…

One of the fun things about the early days of a new baseball season is seeing which unexpected teams are breaking out. In 2018 in the National League, it’s safe to say that Arizona, Milwaukee and Atlanta are three surprise…

With the calendar flipped from April to May, a month of the MLB season is in the books. Slumps and streaks become trends, injuries begin to mount up and the standings begin to stratify. Despite hits and misses in April…

The second round of the NBA playoffs are underway, after a very interesting first round in which a Swarm AI made up of basketball fans posted a 6-2 record. With Eastern Conference play getting underway tonight, Unanimous AI researchers brought…

The NHL playoffs got underway two weeks ago, and with the first round complete the original playoff predictions by our first swarm to consider these matchups look pretty good. That swarm got seven of eight first-round winners correct, only missing…

Perhaps because of the cold weather prevalent throughout April in much of the country, the bats of Major League Baseball teams have been cold to start the 2018 season. For the first month in recorded baseball history, total strikeouts (which…

A unique part of European soccer in general and English soccer specifically are tournaments and side competitions played outside of regular league play. Two of the most prominent of trophies in the sport are coming down to crunch time, with…

No Major League team has repeated as a World Series champion since the Yankees in 1998, 1999, and 2000. The Houston Astros would like to be the team to end that drought, and so far in the early season action…

  In the offseason, Major League General Managers can retool their roster by making trades and signing free agents, but it is an inexact science. Sometimes it works, and sometimes you’re the 2015 San Diego Padres and win the hot…

The past few seasons, the NBA playoffs have followed a familiar script that concluded with Steph Curry’s Golden State Warriors facing off against Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the finals.  This season, with Steph’s balky ankle threatening to…