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Sunday · September 27 · 3:11 PM ✦

PIRATES @ TIGERS

Comerica Park. · 76 degrees, sunny, wind 8 mph out to rf

Final

PIRATES 4
Tigers 2

Our Pick

DETROIT TIGERS, narrowly

✗ Wrong

Projected: 2–3 Detroit Tigers · Actual: 4–2 Pirates

54%

Consensus

— Simulation Breakdown —

Simulation Pick Pirates Tigers Projected Result
Baseline Detroit Tigers 36% 64% 2–3 ✗
Pitcher-weighted Detroit Tigers 33% 67% 2–3 ✗
Platoon-weighted Pittsburgh Pirates 60% 40% 3–2 ✓
Pitcher + Platoon Detroit Tigers 38% 62% 2–3 ✗
Logistic Detroit Tigers 49% 51% — ✗
Random Forest Pittsburgh Pirates 69% 31% — ✓
Consensus Detroit Tigers 46% 54% 2–3 ✗
2 of 6 sims got it right — Platoon-weighted and Random Forest caught what the others missed.

— How We've Done On These Teams —

Pirates this season

85–70

55% across 155 games

Tigers this season

95–58

62% across 153 games