Who Will Win the 2017 World Series?

The Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers have advanced to the 2017 MLB World Series. What do our “quant facts” have to say about the World Series? Before the MLB playoffs started, we used our championship factors to rank the playoff teams.

Source: MLB.

If you used the power rankings in the article to predict the winner of each playoff series, you would have gone 4-2 (correct in 4 series, wrong in 2). Since our book came out almost a decade ago, our published “quant fact predictions” have been correct about 65% of the time — sometimes picking underdogs to win championships.

Read more here: 
http://sportsquants.kinja.com/who-will-win-the-2017-world-series-1819765684

Carlton Chin, a graduate of MIT, is a fund manager and quant researcher focused on portfolio strategy and sports analytics. He has worked with various sports organizations, including the Sacramento Kings — and has been quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and ESPN.

Dr. Jay Granat is a psychotherapist and founder of StayInTheZone.com. He has worked with athletes of all levels, including high school athletes and Olympians. He was named one of Golf Digest’s Top Ten Mental Gurus and has been on Good Morning America, the New York Times, and ESPN. 

2017 MLB Playoff Preview

Here's an excerpt from our latest article -- on the 2017 MLB Playoffs:

Historically, we publish articles for the finals of major sporting events such as the Super Bowl or World Series. Here, we use our research to rank the 2017 MLB playoff contenders.

Our readers will recall that our quant facts are based on factors related to sports psychology. In particular, we study championship factors such as consistency, leadership, confidence, and big game experience. In almost a decade of published articles, our book’s research has correctly predicted the winner of major sporting events almost two-thirds of the time, sometimes picking underdogs.

Read more here.

Or here:

http://sportsquants.kinja.com/who-will-win-the-big-game-a-2017-mlb-playoff-preview-1819141384

Carlton Chin, a graduate of MIT, is a quant researcher focused on portfolio strategy and sports analytics. He has worked with various sports organizations, including the Sacramento Kings on their Analytics Advisory Council — and has been quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and ESPN. Dr. Jay Granat is a psychotherapist and founder of www.stayinthezone.com.  

Carlton’s students at a local university contributed to this article.

Quant Facts 48-27 (64.0%)

With last year's correct Super Bowl prediction -- thanks to the crazy New England Patriot comeback, our quant fact predictions improved to 48-27 -- or 64.0%.  The timing of certain other major sports (March Madness and the NBA/NHL) -- and a busy spring -- kept us from publishing other articles, but we are back with MLB info.

More soon.  Thanks for reading.