Strat-O-Matic World Series Computer Simulations Have Been EERILY Accurate

Just Mets – Things have not gone as planned for the New York Mets so far in the World Series, as the Metropolitans trail the Royals 2-0 after the series’ first two games in Kansas City. By all accounts, nothing has gone right for the Mets in these first two games, as their starting pitching, offense, defense and bullpen have all suffered as the Royals have played two nearly flawless games. As a Mets fan, I can quite honestly say that this was not the result I saw coming entering this series. There is one contingent, however, who may have actually predicted the start of this series, and that could be good news for the Mets… Strat-O-Matic, a Hall of Fame featured baseball simulator that uses computer simulations and algorithms, projected what they believed would happen in the Fall Classic prior to Game One, and the results have been eerily similar thus far…

*   Kansas City wins first two games at home
*   GAME 1: Home runs by Alcides Escobar and Alex Gordon
*   GAME 1: Matt Harvey allows 3 earned runs
*   GAME 1: Mets bullpen implodes
*   GAME 2: Jacob deGrom allows 4 earned runs
*   GAME 2: Johnny Cueto 1 earned run allowed

That’s just downright mind-blowing. While Strat-O-Matic hasn’t been flawless in this process–they predicted Daniel Murphy’shome run streak to continue and for there to be more of a blowout loss for the Mets in Game One–this is still rather remarkable. The good news for the Mets, though, if you believe in any of this, is that Strat-O-Matric predicted that New York would go on to win the World Series in six games after dropping the first two at Kauffman Stadium. According to the simulation, the Mets will win three consecutive pitchers duels at Citi Field on the backs of Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz and Matt Harvey, all while getting some big hits from rookie outfielder Michael Conforto, prior to winning Game Six back in Kansas City after a Jeurys Familia blown save in 14 innings–a similar scenario to their Game One loss, albeit with a different end result. While it is just a computer simulation at the end of the day, it provides hope, and that’s something Mets fans could use a lot of at this moment.

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Let’s go Mets. Let’s go computers.

My internet friend Rich Macleod posted this today. He’s a great follow for Mets Twitter. And while of course computer simulations and algorithms and shit dont mean anything in reality, this is scary accurate. I want to repeat that so people dont think I’m sitting here saying I believe what this computer told me. I’m just saying that looking at these predictions is absolutely nuts. They predicted the exact players that hit home runs, the exact earned run total for Harvey, deGrom and Cueto, and the Mets bullpen being the reason for the game 1 loss. They even predicted a 14 inning game. The simulation had game 6 instead of 1 but thats all fucking bizarre. Of course they didnt get everything correct but the accuracy of the correct predictions is eerie.

I’ve never hoped for a computer to be correct more than right now, as Strat O Matic has the Mets eventually winning in 6. The greatest thing computers have ever done up until this point is give me tons and tons and tons of free porn, but if they correctly predict a Mets World Series Title, porn will be dethroned.

Just kidding porn will always be number 1 but if this all plays out Strat O Matic will be seriously fucking awesome.