I'm often sharing on here that I'm not into predictions.

I just don't enjoy doing them.

And I don't think I'm very good at them when I try it.

I'm a reporter.

I'm into telling you what's actually happened as opposed to, you know, what's going to happen.

There are people who are really, really good at that sort of thing.

Good morning to you.

Good Wednesday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Pirates.

It comes your way bright and early every weekday.

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daily shots of Steelers and Penguins in the same place that you've found this. Dan Zimborski

is a long time, well-known baseball statistician, not attached to any team, does it across the board.

He's been with the baseball think factory.

He's been most recently with fan graphs.

And he has a system that's kind of got his name in there called the Zips projections.

And these are about as good as it gets they're not the only ones

but they're the ones that most people seem to pay attention to and they do get

results because one of the things that the model does each year is it shows

you how it did meaning the previous year it puts several years of variables into any mix.

It has different ways of weighing those variables.

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