Comments on: The Rich, the Richer, and the Precedent for a National League Elite in 2016 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/13/the-rich-the-richer-and-the-precedent-for-a-national-league-elite-in-2016/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Rian Watt http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/13/the-rich-the-richer-and-the-precedent-for-a-national-league-elite-in-2016/#comment-8300 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:13:52 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7436#comment-8300 Hey, thanks!

]]> By: Dale Watt http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/13/the-rich-the-richer-and-the-precedent-for-a-national-league-elite-in-2016/#comment-8283 Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:09:21 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7436#comment-8283 Very good piece overall.

]]> By: Rian Watt http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/13/the-rich-the-richer-and-the-precedent-for-a-national-league-elite-in-2016/#comment-8221 Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:39:28 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7436#comment-8221 Very good point, and one that helps explain the mechanism that translates a two-tiered preseason into a three-tiered league table at the end of the season.

]]> By: Rian Watt http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/13/the-rich-the-richer-and-the-precedent-for-a-national-league-elite-in-2016/#comment-8220 Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:39:01 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7436#comment-8220 Ah, good catch! Totally slipped my mind, but happily doesn’t change the analysis at all. Thank you.

]]> By: Rian Watt http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/13/the-rich-the-richer-and-the-precedent-for-a-national-league-elite-in-2016/#comment-8219 Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:38:36 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7436#comment-8219 With respect to your second point, I’m not sure. With respect to your first, I think it’s quite likely — certainly within a divisional group. It’ll be something worth looking into at the end of 2016, too.

]]> By: victor19nyc http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/13/the-rich-the-richer-and-the-precedent-for-a-national-league-elite-in-2016/#comment-8214 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:15:15 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7436#comment-8214 One thing to remember is the very bad teams do in fact play one another, in the case of Marlins Phillies and Braves, they play each other a lot. So if the Marlins are the “best” of the “very bad” teams they could end up with a decent record at the end of the season, even if they really have no chance against the “very good” teams.

]]> By: Renegade http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/13/the-rich-the-richer-and-the-precedent-for-a-national-league-elite-in-2016/#comment-8206 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:04:26 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7436#comment-8206 psst.. Marlins, 64 wins

]]> By: Isaac Bennett http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/13/the-rich-the-richer-and-the-precedent-for-a-national-league-elite-in-2016/#comment-8177 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 15:06:24 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7436#comment-8177 Nice work…interesting.

So I wonder what this means for the 2015 iteration of the NL Central? Given that 2015 came in as the second-most stratified in league history, and given that the Central Division had the top three teams (in all of baseball, no less) in the NL, I wonder if this means that 1) the triumvirate of teams in the NL Central may have been one of the best ever, and 2) The disparity between the top three and bottom two had to be the largest ever….?

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