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Good morning and welcome to episode 633 Effectively Wild,

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baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with the member of Grantland,

Hi Ben, how are you? Quite alright. Excellent. And later in the show,

Saudev, we'll be talking to Jason Beck of MLB.com. In the meantime though, we have

Ken Funk who wrote the Tigers essay in the BP Annual as well as most of the

rest of the BP Annual. If only that were true. Hi Sam. Hi.

Hi Ben. So Ken, I have a little bit of trivia, I guess, or something that you

wouldn't know. But I learned this recently. A couple years ago, the Tigers playoff odds

were like 100% before the season began and or something like that or

something close to that. And that was I think for reasons that are should be

kind of appreciated by everybody. That was deemed to be unacceptable. And so we

included an extra level of regression into our playoff odds. So when people are

looking at their playoff odds on our site this year, when they come out in a

couple of days actually, they will not realize this, but these odds will have been

subtly affected by what I guess internally we could call the Tigers rule, which

is that you shouldn't be allowed to be 100% playoff odds before the season

begins. For again, reasons I think everybody could appreciate. So this is just a

way of getting to the fact that the Tigers for the last few years have been

really good in a division that hasn't been really good. And it seems as though

they should be something like this like powerhouse dynasty that's been running

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