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Friday · May 8 · 6:41 PM ✦

TIGERS @ ROYALS

Kauffman Stadium. · 64 degrees, partly cloudy, wind 0 mph calm

Final

Tigers 3
ROYALS 4

Our Pick

DETROIT TIGERS, narrowly

✗ Wrong

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

52%

Consensus

— Simulation Breakdown —

Simulation Pick Tigers Royals Projected Result
Baseline Detroit Tigers 56% 44% 3–3 ✗
Pitcher-weighted Detroit Tigers 56% 44% 4–4 ✗
Platoon-weighted Detroit Tigers 51% 49% 4–3 ✗
Pitcher + Platoon Detroit Tigers 55% 45% 3–3 ✗
Logistic Kansas City Royals 49% 51% — ✓
Random Forest Kansas City Royals 47% 53% — ✓
Consensus Detroit Tigers 52% 48% 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

95–58

62% across 153 games

Royals this season

78–77

50% across 155 games