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Projection of games played through June 3

To best read the chart below, observe a team's projected win total in the 6/3 column (each team's projected in total based on games played through June 3) and compare with your prediction. The difference is the number of wins off you are for that team.

For example, based on games played through June 3, Baltimore is on pace to win 96 games. Dwaine's prediction of 87 is the closest, but he's off by 9 wins. Add up how many wins you are off for all 30 teams, and you have your score. Lowest score wins.

As things have settled for several of the major league teams, the scores have settled for us as well and our scores are much closer together than they were after the first month of play.

There is plenty that will change as the season progresses, but at this point NO ONE is beating Baseball Examiner. Here are the standings based on # of wins off the projected 2005 win total for all teams:

entry 1 month 2 months 3 months 4 months 5 months Final score

Chuck 368 312

Mel 414 320

Eric 382 330

Alex 432 338

Matt 440 376

Phil 454 380

Dwaine 472 380

The entry that is closest to that team's projection is marked red.

Team	Avg	5/3	6/3	7/3	8/3	9/3	Final	CD	PZ	MO	EG	AR	DK	MC
Baltimore	80	106	96					76	74	81	80	85	87	74
Boston	94	87	90					95	93	89	98	95	99	89
Toronto	72	93	85					73	71	76	72	63	65	83
New York (AL)	96	66	81					101	91	87	100	107	96	92
Tampa Bay	71	54	59					66	81	67	64	65	78	77
Total wins off for all teams in division								64	71	39	61	70	72	54
Chicago (AL)	82	118	108					83	72	81	87	91	75	85
Minnesota	91	97	98					95	89	85	95	88	94	88
Detroit	78	78	81					75	72	75	80	83	84	78
Cleveland	80	65	76					78	83	83	83	78	81	75
Kansas City	63	44	51					61	70	70	51	55	70	66
Total wins off for all teams in division								46	80	72	32	35	64	52
Los Angeles (AL)	91	96	93					94	92	87	94	92	98	80
Texas	77	81	92					75	75	76	85	86	70	72
Seattle	80	72	67					77	84	75	71	74	87	89
Oakland	85	78	63					88	87	84	90	82	76	90
Total wins off for all teams in division								53	59	51	39	33	60	82
Florida	88	101	87					93	89	88	94	78	89	88
Atlanta	91	93	87					95	87	86	96	97	84	95
Washington	67	84	85					71	68	74	69	62	65	61
New York (NL)	83	78	84					84	75	86	81	82	86	86
Philadelphia	83	72	81					76	85	82	84	85	90	79
Total wins off for all teams in division								33	32	16	38	48	36	37
St. Louis	94	110	105					98	88	93	97	102	84	97
Chicago (NL)	88	78	86					91	77	90	90	86	92	91
Milwaukee	71	78	78					69	81	70	62	66	70	77
Pittsburgh	68	58	76					64	72	70	64	70	69	70
Cincinnati	77	62	63					75	79	80	80	75	78	75
Houston	87	71	61					80	84	91	88	90	88	88
Total wins off for all teams in division								64	72	77	84	62	84	59
Los Angeles (NL)	86	106	81					88	87	83	82	91	89	81
Arizona	69	96	90					73	75	78	72	52	65	66
San Francisco	86	87	72					85	85	86	88	88	80	89
San Diego	83	78	100					92	90	84	70	92	83	73
Colorado	68	41	52					59	74	73	63	70	58	76
Total wins off for all teams in division								52	66	65	76	90	64	92
Entry Score								312	380	320	330	338	380	376

Legend of participants:

CD = Chuck of Baseball Examiner

PZ = Phil of Baseball Examiner

MO = Mel Ogrodowski

EG = Eric Gerber

AR = Alex Ruiz

DK = Dwaine Knestrick

MC = Matt Crawford