Which Experts Predicted A Red Sox-Cardinals World Series?
With two storied franchises making the 2013 Fall Classic, let’s take a look at which of the 63 experts we tracked this year (from ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CBS, Yahoo, and Fox) pegged the series correctly.
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Well, how’s this for embarassing: 0 of the 63 so-called experts had both the Red Sox and Cardinals in the World Series.
Perhaps this is not a huge surprise, as Vegas gave each team less than a 10% probability of making the Series. So let’s lower the bar considerably and look at the pundits who picked either the Red Sox OR the Cardinals to make it.
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You guessed it — zero. Not one. We know baseball has been the toughest sport to predict in recent years, but the pundits truly reached a new level of futility this year.
So which teams did the experts pick? Here were the aggregate predictions:
| AL Pennant | NL Pennant | World Series Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 39: DET | 44: WAS | 28: WAS |
| 12: TB | 10: CIN | 23: DET |
| 06: TOR | 05: LAD | 04: CIN |
| 06: LAA | 04: ATL | 03: LAA |
| 03: TB | ||
| 01: TOR | ||
| 01: LAD |
To see all the individual pundit predictions, click here.
If you’d like to make your own pick for the World Series (both Game 1 and the overall winner), head over to our MLB section to start building a track record that everyone can see.
PunditTracker's mission is to bring accountability to the prediction industry by cataloging and scoring the predictions of pundits.
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