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Tuesday · August 18 · 6:40 pm ✦

TIGERS @ PIRATES

PNC Park. · 78 degrees, clear, wind 7 mph out to rf

Final

Tigers 1
PIRATES 4

Our Pick

DETROIT TIGERS

✗ Wrong

Projected: 5–4 Detroit Tigers · Actual: 1–4 Pirates

57%

Consensus

— Simulation Breakdown —

Simulation Pick Tigers Pirates Projected Result
Baseline Detroit Tigers 51% 49% 5–4 ✗
Pitcher-weighted Detroit Tigers 64% 36% 4–3 ✗
Platoon-weighted Detroit Tigers 65% 35% 5–4 ✗
Pitcher + Platoon Detroit Tigers 58% 40% 4–3 ✗
Logistic Detroit Tigers 53% 47% — ✗
Random Forest Pittsburgh Pirates 47% 53% — ✓
Consensus Detroit Tigers 57% 43% 5–4 ✗
1 of 6 sims got it right — Random Forest caught what the others missed.

— How We've Done On These Teams —

Tigers this season

95–58

62% across 153 games

Pirates this season

85–70

55% across 155 games