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Baseball Was Way Easier To Predict In 2016 — Except For Fly Balls

Heading into the final week of the regular season, the MLB playoff picture is almost settled. Although a handful of wild-card spots are still unclaimed, every division in baseball is all but locked up. This year has been one of the more imbalanced years in recent memory, featuring the 100-game-winning Cubs alongside the (likely) sub-60-win […]

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Baseball Was Way Easier To Predict In 2016 — Except For Fly Balls

Heading into the final week of the regular season, the MLB playoff picture is almost settled. Although a handful of wild-card spots are still unclaimed, every division in baseball is all but locked up. This year has been one of the more imbalanced years in recent memory, featuring the 100-game-winning Cubs alongside the (likely) sub-60-win […]

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Which NFL Teams Really Have the Toughest And Easiest Schedules in 2014?

The NFL released its 2014 schedule Wednesday night, confirming the dates and locations of all 256 matchups (and ending your chance to enter the St. Louis Rams’ schedule-guessing contest, even though you had no chance of winning). With the slate solidified, you can probably expect to see more of the standard strength-of-schedule analysis that averages the 2013 […]

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Which NFL Teams Really Have the Toughest And Easiest Schedules in 2014?

The NFL released its 2014 schedule Wednesday night, confirming the dates and locations of all 256 matchups (and ending your chance to enter the St. Louis Rams’ schedule-guessing contest, even though you had no chance of winning). With the slate solidified, you can probably expect to see more of the standard strength-of-schedule analysis that averages the 2013 […]

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