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The Best 2015 MLB Teams, According To Our New Ratings

Dedicated (or even casual!) readers of our NFL, NBA, tennis or soccer coverage probably know that FiveThirtyEight loves it some Elo ratings. The Elo system, originally designed by a Hungarian-American physicist to rank competitive chess players, can be easily adapted to assess just about any form of competition, telling us who’s good and bad at […]

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The Best 2015 MLB Teams, According To Our New Ratings

Dedicated (or even casual!) readers of our NFL, NBA, tennis or soccer coverage probably know that FiveThirtyEight loves it some Elo ratings. The Elo system, originally designed by a Hungarian-American physicist to rank competitive chess players, can be easily adapted to assess just about any form of competition, telling us who’s good and bad at […]

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