FANALYTICS: Tying up loose ends, part 3
Oct 14 2011
2011 Longshot Caucus
Back in March, I gave our writers the task of coming up with some out-on-a-limb projections for 2011. We run into trouble every year when we ground our future expectations in past realities, so it is an important exercise to create some possibilities that we would never have considered.
The end results are usually a few hits, a few misses and a few projections invalidated by other variables. Frankly, getting 3-4 hits out of 15 or so longshots is a good year. In 2009, the results were so bad that I didn't even bother including them in my end-of-season column. Last year, we hit on four out of 19. This year was about the same, maybe a little better.
Let's look back on the 20 bold projections we floated out on...
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