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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
50 Craziest Names in Sports History | Bleacher Report
Check this out and let seriesweep know which name you think is the zaniest.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Independence Day Sweeps?
Lots of fireworks this Fourth of July, including in the area of sweeps. The Yankees, Red Sox, are White Sox are among the teams poised to sweep this weekend. Big question is who gets the bragging rights? While you barbecue, we'll watch and update the Sweep Factors!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Newseum Item on Series Sweep
Newseum | Today's Front Pages Analysis
Gene Mater, a contributor to Newseum, wrote this commentary on the various descriptions of a series sweep. For example: sweep, series sweep, swept.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Four Teams go 3-0 to complete series sweeps in season's 1st week
After the first series of the 2011 season, the fans of four teams got their brooms out to celebrate their completed series sweeps.
The AL East saw a surprising series sweep by the powerhouse Rays over the reconstituted Red Sox who have created a panic in Beantown by being swept by the Indians in the Sox second series of the season. Opening 0-6 is wicked.
Also in the AL East, the new juggernaut of baseball, the Orioles swept the Rays. Manager Buck Showalter has worked his magic turning the perennial floor mat O's into a team with the best or nearly best record in baseball since he took over mid-season last year.created.
What can you say about the Rays. Fans deserve better than a wholesale sell off of your talented players. They are in for a long season as Angels came into town and swept a short two game series as well.
In the NL, teams held true to form. Power house teams, Phillies and Reds swept Astros and Brewers 3-0 respectively.
The AL East saw a surprising series sweep by the powerhouse Rays over the reconstituted Red Sox who have created a panic in Beantown by being swept by the Indians in the Sox second series of the season. Opening 0-6 is wicked.
Also in the AL East, the new juggernaut of baseball, the Orioles swept the Rays. Manager Buck Showalter has worked his magic turning the perennial floor mat O's into a team with the best or nearly best record in baseball since he took over mid-season last year.created.
What can you say about the Rays. Fans deserve better than a wholesale sell off of your talented players. They are in for a long season as Angels came into town and swept a short two game series as well.
In the NL, teams held true to form. Power house teams, Phillies and Reds swept Astros and Brewers 3-0 respectively.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
8 Teams still in running for 2011 first series sweep
Three teams in AL East, Blue Jays, Orioles and Yankees, AL Central White Sox, AL West Mariners and Rangers, NL East Phillies, NL Central Reds and NL West Padres are all 2-0.
Action continues today. We'll keep you posted.
Action continues today. We'll keep you posted.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
2011 Is Underway. Dodgers 2-0 vs Defending WS Champs Giants
After two days of the 2011 season, 15 teams are in a potential Series Sweep position being lead by the Dodgers who could sweep the Giants. Seriesweep will continue to monitor the results.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Your team is leading the majors with a 2011 Sweep Factor of 1.000!
It's HERE! First pitch 1:05 eastern time. There is joy again in Mudvillle, every fan is hopeful. This is our year.
Like every team's 1.000 winning percentage, every team's Sweep Factor is 1.000 - zero divided by zero through the miracle of mathematics is 1.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
No Series Sweeps in 2010 World Series!
| Playoff Team Performance | |||||||
| Team | Rank | Season WL % | Rank | Sweep Factor | Rank | Playoff W-L | |
| Giants | 5 | 0.568 | 8 | 133 | 1 | 11-4 | |
| Rangers | 8 | 0.556 | 5 | 150 | 2 | 8-8 | |
| Phillies | 1 | 0.599 | 3 | 367 | 3 | 5-4 | |
| Yankees | 3 | 0.586 | 4 | 300 | 4 | 5-4 | |
| Rays | 2 | 0.593 | 2 | 450 | 5 | 2-3 | |
| Braves | 6 | 0.562 | 6 | 160 | 6 | 1-3 | |
| Reds | 7 | 0.58 | 7 | 133 | 7 | 0-3 | |
| Twins | 4 | 0.562 | 1 | 550 | 8 | 0-3 | |
In prior posts, seriesweep.blogspot.com reviewed the 2010 season through the Divisional Playoffs. From a series sweep perspective, the 2010 MLB Championship Series and World Series were of no consequence. The Texas Rangers beat the New York Yankees 4-2 in the American League Championship Series. The San Francisco Giants bested the Philadelphia Phillies by a similar 4-2 game record. The Giants went on to beat the Rangers 4-1 to win the 2010 World Series.
But the 2010 MLB Playoffs overall results do provide some “food for thought” for interpreting the implication of our favorite new statistic, the Sweep Factor or SF. As displayed in the chart above, we list the eight playoff teams with their respective performance statistics in three areas – Season Won/Loss Percentage, Season Sweep Factor Value and Playoff Won/Loss Record. In addition, we show each team’s relative rank for each of the measurements.
A cursory examination brings to mind Matthew 20:16: “So the first shall be last and the last shall be first”. The Giants as World Series winners ranked first in playoff wins and losses with a record of 11-4. They finished the season with the worst Sweep Factor rating of 133 for all the teams in the playoffs. Paradoxically, The Twins performed exactly the opposite with MLB’s best Sweep Factor rating of 550 and a tie with the Reds for the worst playoff W/L result of 0-3.
Another curiosity is the underachievement of the Phillies with MLB’s best season record of .599 and not getting to the World Series. More study is needed to see if the Giants who were on a roll at the end of the 2010 season performed well in Sweep Factor for the September and October.
Well, Opening Day is less than a month away, there’ll be plenty more games to ponder and analyze.
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