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Friday · August 21 ✦

TIGERS @ ROYALS

Kauffman Stadium.

Final

Tigers 2
ROYALS 5

Our Pick

DETROIT TIGERS, narrowly

✗ Wrong

Projected: 4–3 Detroit Tigers · Actual: 2–5 Royals

54%

Consensus

— Simulation Breakdown —

Simulation Pick Tigers Royals Projected Result
Baseline Detroit Tigers 60% 40% 4–3
Pitcher-weighted Detroit Tigers 58% 42% 4–3
Platoon-weighted Detroit Tigers 56% 44% 4–3
Pitcher + Platoon Detroit Tigers 67% 33% 5–4
Logistic Kansas City Royals 39% 61%
Random Forest Kansas City Royals 46% 54%
Consensus Detroit Tigers 54% 46% 4–3
2 of 6 sims got it right — Logistic and Random Forest caught what the others missed.

— How We've Done On These Teams —

Tigers this season

75–45

62% across 120 games

Royals this season

66–57

54% across 123 games