AL wild card race & College Football Rating Formula Week 2

As far as the college football stuff, I've e-mailed it off to Dad (as the formula is on his computer

) and the results should be up tonight (but I could run into unprecedented difficulties). So anyways, here is my analysis of the AL card race (NL soon) (number in parentheses is magic number).

AL:

Boston

Texas 4.5 GB (16)

Seattle 11 GB (9)

Tampa Bay 12 GB (8)

Minnesota 13 GB (7)

CHW 14 GB (6)

Oakland 19.5 GB (1)

NOTE: Toronto, Baltimore, Kansas City eliminated from wild card and division contention. Cleveland is eliminated in the wild card, but can still win the Central.

After Boston and Texas, nobody realistically has a shot. So let's concentrate on Boston and Texas. Remember that Texas needs to pick up 5 more wins then Boston. I'm going to color-code this, red for Boston, blue for Texas.

SCHEDULE:

3 LAA 1-2

3 BAL 3-0

4 KC 4-0

3 NYY 1-2

3 TOR 2-1

4 CLE 2-2

2 OAK 2-0

OFF

3 LAA 1-2

4 OAK 3-1

3 TB 2-1

4 LAA 2-2

3 SEA 2-1

13-7 

12-7 

So, Boston actually picks up half a game on Texas. Unless Boston has a total meltdown, they have pretty much secured the AL wild card. And their 7.5 back of the Yankees, so they aren't gonna win the East. Safe to say the Red Sox will play the Yankees in the 1-4.

More soon!