Comments on: Season Similarity Scores https://seamheads.com/baseballgauge/blog/?p=495 Mon, 08 May 2017 01:28:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Dan Hirsch https://seamheads.com/baseballgauge/blog/?p=495#comment-394 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:25:59 +0000 http://seamheads.com/baseballgauge/blog/?p=495#comment-394 That’s a great idea. I’ll see what I can come up with.

]]> By: Simon https://seamheads.com/baseballgauge/blog/?p=495#comment-393 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:42:04 +0000 http://seamheads.com/baseballgauge/blog/?p=495#comment-393 Very cool!

Would also be interesting to see a list of the most similar teams based on the number of games above/below .500 at each point of the season. The Blue Jays had a few long winning streaks this year and were also very strong in the second half. Who had the most comparable season in history? The similarity score between the Jays and “Team X” would be calculated like this:

$sim=1,000
for each game in Jays schedule {
$sim = $sim – abs(Jays vs .500 – Team X vs .500)
}

The most similar teams would make a nice-looking graph.

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