{"id":2573,"date":"2015-04-23T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2015-04-23T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:00:11","slug":"hey-yahoo-sports-why-not-always-post-the-magic-number-for-every-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2573","title":{"rendered":"hey yahoo! sports &#8211; why not always post the magic number for every team?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_number_%28sports%29\">magic number<\/a> (and I&#8217;ll take the example of baseball, because while I don&#8217;t get to watch them much, I do follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/mets.com\">Mets<\/a>) is so easy to calculate, why not post it on the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/standings\">standings<\/a> as soon as there have been games played?<\/p>\n<p>This would be a\u00a0<em>good<\/em> use of <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2006\/03\/30\/technology-and-baseball\/#.VTj4M61VhBc\">technology<\/a> relative to baseball (or any sport).<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, the math for the magic number is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><code>G + 1 \u2212 W<sub>A<\/sub> \u2212 L<sub>B<\/sub><\/code><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>where<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>G is the total number of games in the season<\/li>\n<li>W<sub>A<\/sub> is the number of wins that Team A has in the season<\/li>\n<li>L<sub>B<\/sub> is the number of losses that Team B has in the season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of today, the magic number for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mets.com\">Mets<\/a> is 162 + 1 &#8211; 12 &#8211; 6, or 145.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the magic number (and I&#8217;ll take the example of baseball, because while I don&#8217;t get to watch them much, I do follow the Mets) is so easy to calculate, why not post it on the standings as soon as there have been games played? This would be a\u00a0good use of technology relative to baseball &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2573\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">hey yahoo! sports &#8211; why not always post the magic number for every team?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,31],"tags":[133,470,708],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-personal","tag-baseball","tag-math","tag-sports"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}