The 2024 Major League Baseball postseason gets underway on Tuesday with 4 wild-card games to be played.
An extensive regular season wrapped up on Monday with a makeup doubleheader to decide the final 2 National League wild-card spots.
The New York Mets and Atlanta Braves were the last 2 teams to punch their ticket to the playoffs, but the complete field is finally set.
Many people like to guess how the postseason will go, but a new strategy was used to predict the World Series Champion.
According to MLB on ‘X,’ MLB The Show was used to simulate the postseason.
MLB The Show simulated the 2024 Postseason and have the Dodgers winning the World Series! pic.twitter.com/p1TaIHpnAb
— MLB (@MLB) October 1, 2024
MLB The Show is a popular video game that is played by tons of Major League Baseball fans and players.
The video game can simulate games, and this feature was used to predict how the 2024 postseason will play out.
After the simulation was completed, The Show had the Los Angeles Dodgers taking on the Houston Astros in the World Series, with the Dodgers taking the title.
The Dodgers appear to be the overall favorite to win the World Series, so this may not come as a huge surprise.
A deeper dive into the simulation shows some big upsets including the Mets knocking off the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies.
Another thing worth noting from the simulation is the Astros making their 8th consecutive American League Championship Series.
Although the simulation is nothing more than a video game, it will be interesting to see how things play out in 2024 and see how close the prediction was.
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