Those are some wacky projections. Massive regressions from Cook, Francis, and Fuentes... Ramirez looks worthless, because his past numbers as a starter are dragging down the projection (a perfectly understandable mistake, but a mistake nonetheless)... Hawpe projected as a league-average hitter... Carroll projected much closer to his '05 numbers than to '04 or '06... yeesh. There isn't a single player on the team who this system likes significantly more than I do, and my projections have historically been among the more pessimistic (compared to ZiPS, PECOTA, etc).
And of course, any team projections are going to be heavily influenced by the allocation of playing time. I have absolutely no clue how SG chose to do that for the Rockies, but it wouldn't surprise me if guys like Morillo and Stewart are dragging down the team projection a little.
I can't point to a clear methodological flaw here, because I don't know what the methodology is, but these projections look way off to me.
FWIW, here's my current projected NL West:
SD 88-74
LA 85-77
SF 81-81
ARI 81-81 (with Big Unit - that's looking like a done deal)
COL 77-85
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