“Something that I have noticed about rockies is that rocky fans appear regardless of how the team is working,” said Scott Powers, an assistant professor of sports analysis and statistics at the University of Rice. “But if income does not depend on yield, there are certainly less incentives (so that equipment owners improve the equipment).”
And there could be a touch of bad luck in misery so far this year.
While the Colorado race differential of -89 (106 races scored and 195 paid) is the worst in the MLB, the winning percentage of the Pythagoras of the Rockies, a formula that estimates approximately how many victories a team must have, according to their races scored and paid, it puts a short hair of eight victories of these 34 games.
That formula, and variations in this regard, is important for the work that many major leagues do, said Powers, who was an assistant to the general manager of the Houston stars.
“The most important thing is simply that defeat performance in the defeat in the first 34 games of the season, you will get some atypical values, and those atypical values are due to some combination of performance and luck,” Powers said.
But that means there is hope for rockies?
“It depends on what you want to say with hope,” Powers said. “If your hope is to flee with the division and be goodbye in the first round of the playoffs, then that hope could be out of place. But if your hope is to avoid losing 120 games, then I think it is a very low probability at this time, that the rockies have the season type that the White Sox had last year.”
