Here at the Cranach Institute, we not only make predictions, we check them. Twice at this blog, at the beginning of the baseball season and at the beginning of the playoffs, we held a forum to predict what baseball teams would make it through the playoffs and which one would win the World Series.
We now know that the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants, the two wild-card teams, met in the World Series. After the full seven games–all of them quite exciting, with Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner somehow winning three of them–San Francisco won, for the third time in five years.
So did anyone predict these outcomes? The answer after the jump.
The first time we made predictions, back on April 1 at the very beginning of the season, it was all Dodgers, Tigers, Rangers, Yankees, and Red Sox. No one even came close.