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Neil Paine, FiveThirtyEight: Sports
Tue, 10/25/2016 - 9:06am

In a departure from the past few World Series, this year’s contest between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians contains two teams that were both: a) highly regarded before the season began and b) played well for most of the year. (No flukes here!) The average of the teams’ pre-Series Elo ratings — a measure of a team’s strength at any given time — ranks ninth among the 22 World Series matchups since the wild card era began in 1995 and 37th out of the 91 since the current 2-3-2 best-of-seven World Series format was adopted in 1925.

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