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Originally Posted by shipontilt
Wait, so the Mets schedule has actually been harder than the Braves schedule? lmao.
Mets opponents have won about one and a third percentage points more of their total games than Braves opponents have.
And actually I miscalculated it and the Mets SOS should be .509. I forgot to factor in the last two game series with the Braves.
Removing all play between the two teams (which probably shouldn't be factored into a SOS comparison) gives the Braves at .486 and the Mets at .501. If I were being really thorough, I would remove wins and losses vs the Braves and Mets from the win% of all the teams, but that is too much work and we know it will benefit the Braves to the tune of about .0015 to do so.
So if you factor in this total .013 difference between the SOS you might conclude that a random .500 team would probably have one more win playing the Braves' schedule than the Mets' schedule. So I would rate SOS differences between the teams as about as important as the outcome of one game--not very meaningful, in other words.
Again, road play is not taken into consideration here.
fwiw I am a Braves fan.
Last edited by T50_Omaha8; 06-16-2010 at 11:40 AM.