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My first '69 team, and they're in the playoffs. But I can't figure out how they did so well. 6th in runs scored, 7th in ERA, and a Pythagorean projection of 82-80. Yet they won 93 games.

Dumb luck? Did I just stumble on some great value players, such as Sparky Lyle?

Any comments or observations would be welcome.

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the park you had helps out your pitchers but of course hurts your hitters.

Your bullpen performed really well. I have found that when bullpens do well and there are a lot of close games the Pythagorean projection is often a poor predictor of record. In fact so many of my teams have been over or under what the projections says I now totally ignore it.