Basewinner and Scott review the teams that have outperformed or fallen behind their pre-season expectations. This could be helpful to identify potential regression candidates. In-depth NL West Standings, Sabermetric and Weekly standings. Basewinner reviews RISP vs. Full comparisons on both Offense and Defense to identify potential regression. NL West starting pitcher spotlight is on Merril Kelly. Basewinner is upbeat on him and goes over the reasons why.

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Mark and Scott discuss the NL West vs. sabermetrics, RISP vs. full disparity, the Runs/100 metric compared to wRC+, and the research Mark has been doing on fielding. We finish up by discussing Kevin Gausman from the Giants.

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Stat of the Week: The importance of defense

Mark and Scott discuss the NL West Standings, the Runs/100 metric compared to wRC+, and Madison Bumgarner's surprising lack of velocity and control.

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Madison Bumgarner is throwing 88 mph. How concerning is that?

Mark and Scott discuss the 2020 season, COVID outbreaks among the players, and how a shortened season will affect stats.

Mark takes us through one of his favorite stats, Runners in Scoring Position (RISP) and Weighted Runs Created Plus. (wRC+)

We finish out the episode by discussing German Marquez and his surprising home/road splits.

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Basewinner gives you some key NL West numbers so you can impress your dates and win money from the Vegas books. Detailed ratings are here for your pleasure.

3:00 -- NL West standings projections, wins and division probabilities4:45 -- NL West Starting Pitching 11:40 -- NL West Bullpen14:25 -- NL West Batting 17:20 -- Cool Statcast aggregates for NL West

Clear Data Sports is excited to welcome back The Syrian Pony and Riley after a long sports hiatus. They will be discussing the retooled NFL model and giving out ALL of our season win totals FOR FREE! 

If you want to be a member of the community, you can do so FREE through July. Contact [email protected] and Pony will take care of you.

The podcast discusses each division in the following order in case you want to jump around:

AFC East, North, South, West...NFC East, North, South, West

On the eve of the annual Season Win Total release, Basewinner describes the detailed process that generates the projected standings.

Get a sneak peek at the Basewinner season projection model that has generated a 22-6 SWT Record since it's inception in 2016.

Basewinner gives you a look at the 4 main components of the model. Starting Pitching, Relief Pitching, Team Offense and Fielding. 

This edition of BW Crunch features our soccer expert, Riley Wichmann. A tasty play is given out in the Bournemouth v. Chelsea match.

The guys also talk about the ups and downs of handicapping and about what has gone right and wrong this year on the EPL modeling side. 

This edition of BW Crunch goes very deep as the Clear Data Sports Champions League handicapping process is broken down by our soccer expert, Riley Wichmann.

Basewinner hosts. He is in a generous mood and coaxes two official future UCL plays out of Riley that will pay out nicely if they hit. Riley highlights the depths of an amazing modeling process that has led to a nice 18 unit profit since the models inception.  

Also as a bonus, Riley deals out a breakdown on the Aston Villa v. Tottenham game with a strong official play.

Basewinner also talks about a couple exciting things that will be coming out of the Clear Data camp in the next month.

Basewinner goes over essential NL Playoff Numbers in hopes to find playoff value.

 Key topics covered: 1- Who is the 2019 MLB "Natural" in Basewinner's opinion. 2- Season win total review. 2- Basewinner playoff handicapping process at a high level. 3- Interesting notes regarding the NL playoff teams. 4- A small NL series play.