What's Up With The White Sox?

[BaseballNewsNow]

Very, very, very small sample size here and probably an overreaction but...the White Sox suck in this game. I've ran maybe 10 simulations and the White Sox have had a losing record in all but one of them. Needless to say, they have not made the playoffs once.

What's up with that? They are heavy favorites to win the AL Central.

[UltimateAverageGuy]

Could’ve just stopped typing after the dots

[locuspc]

I had the Orioles win the World Series... clearly the new simulation engine is broken beyond repair.

[Primary]

what do their team stats look like? are they struggling offensively? defense?

[Mike D]

Originally Posted by BaseballNewsNow

Very, very, very small sample size here and probably an overreaction but...the White Sox suck in this game. I've ran maybe 10 simulations and the White Sox have had a losing record in all but one of them. Needless to say, they have not made the playoffs once.

What's up with that? They are heavy favorites to win the AL Central.

Seems realistic to me

[hfield007]

i mean pretty good chance we see that irl this year...

i'd say 99.9% of threads that start like this are indeed an over reaction to sample sizes or you didnt dig into why they are losing (injuries, trades, underperformance, etc)

[slugga27]

Originally Posted by BaseballNewsNow

Very, very, very small sample size here and probably an overreaction but...the White Sox suck in this game. I've ran maybe 10 simulations and the White Sox have had a losing record in all but one of them. Needless to say, they have not made the playoffs once.

What's up with that? They are heavy favorites to win the AL Central.

I wouldn’t read into it. Things happen. Too many variables.


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[84Cubs]

Originally Posted by BaseballNewsNow

Very, very, very small sample size here and probably an overreaction but...the White Sox suck in this game. I've ran maybe 10 simulations and the White Sox have had a losing record in all but one of them. Needless to say, they have not made the playoffs once.

What's up with that? They are heavy favorites to win the AL Central.

I wonder if it has to do with their defense. I haven't looked at them in OOTP 23, but I'm not sure, outside of Luis Robert, how strong they are up the middle.

[Bunktown Ballers]

Originally Posted by hfield007

i mean pretty good chance we see that irl this year...

i'd say 99.9% of threads that start like this are indeed an over reaction to sample sizes or you didnt dig into why they are losing (injuries, trades, underperformance, etc)

Yeah same record they had same time last year to but managed to squeeze by with 93 wins. Same problem we that had last year injuries. Entire starting outfield of Eloy, Luis Robert, AL Pollack out . Starting 3rd base never played yet this year. Lance Lynn out another 2 months, Joe Kelly out.Keuchel, Velaquez are just terrible. Giolito came back today

[spacer15415]

They are 6-9 to start the season, maybe OOTP will be right.

[MathBandit]

Originally Posted by BaseballNewsNow

Very, very, very small sample size here and probably an overreaction but...the White Sox suck in this game. I've ran maybe 10 simulations and the White Sox have had a losing record in all but one of them. Needless to say, they have not made the playoffs once.

What's up with that? They are heavy favorites to win the AL Central.

When you say "heavy favourites", do you mean "less than 50% chance"? Because that's what fangraphs has them as to win the Central.

[Bunktown Ballers]

Originally Posted by BaseballNewsNow

Very, very, very small sample size here and probably an overreaction but...the White Sox suck in this game. I've ran maybe 10 simulations and the White Sox have had a losing record in all but one of them. Needless to say, they have not made the playoffs once.

What's up with that? They are heavy favorites to win the AL Central.

Unless your team is stacked and let AI run tram you get better results. White Sox need to be hands on playing out every game because of si mnay injuries. I know bc they ob only team I play and manage

[5-4-3]

Originally Posted by MathBandit

When you say "heavy favourites", do you mean "less than 50% chance"? Because that's what fangraphs has them as to win the Central.

ZIPS gives them a 70.7% chance to win the division.

[Birdland24]

Originally Posted by locuspc

I had the Orioles win the World Series... clearly the new simulation engine is broken beyond repair.

What’s your secret? I’m the O’s and I’m struggling to have a pitcher make it 5 innings. It’s almost like the game is to real


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[TeeClev]

White Sox just made it to the World Series in the 1st year of my save. Lost the series 4-2 to the cardinals.

[Cloonix]

It's quiite a lottery. I started 4 games with the White Sox. In two of them they have a ~0.650 in May and the other two games they were last place in division with ~0.350.

Then sim'ed a whole season and they got last as well.

I have the feeling that the morale of the team has a high impact on the performance. If they are winning the first games, it goes easy in the upcoming games.

[Galeg]

Just like real life, in my game CWS are littered with injuries.

[Bobbyraz49]

Originally Posted by locuspc

I had the Orioles win the World Series... clearly the new simulation engine is broken beyond repair.

As a lifelong Oriole fan....something IS broken. LOL

[Zitofan75]

Originally Posted by 5-4-3

ZIPS gives them a 70.7% chance to win the division.

So there was always a pretty decent chance (~30%) that they don't win the division. If I had a nickel for every pre-season prediction that didn't pan out I'd be a wealthy man.

Anyhow, it is early but still, this happens.

[MathBandit]

Originally Posted by Zitofan75

So there was always a pretty decent chance (~30%) that they don't win the division. If I had a nickel for every pre-season prediction that didn't pan out I'd be a wealthy man.

Anyhow, it is early but still, this happens.

Not sure where to see these ZIPS projections, but on fangraphs today they have a 47.2% chance of winning the division.