Playoff probability sites

• Sports Club Stats is my favorite :)
• Baseball Prospectus computes MLB playoff chances 3 different ways.    Someone else generates graphs of BP’s current data.
• Coolstandings.com does NFL, MLB, and NBA.
• Playoffstatus.com does a bunch of sports, including NCAA Hockey.
• Hockey Numbers does the NHL and has a bunch of other stats.
• The defunct PlayoffOdds.net did a bunch of sports. Eric, its creator, stopped updating it around 2004. When asked why, Eric responded “…dog followed by kid” :)
• Playoff Time was my first stab at Sports Club Stats, with 06 NHL and MLB, and some Word Cup throw in for kicks.

Technical stuff

• I use C# to create the program that grabs the latest scores, computes the probabilities, outputs the results to an XML file, converts the XML to static web pages (with Saxon XSLT) and FTPs the pages to my webhost, A Small Orange.
• Everything in the Home section, including the previous run on sentence, is generated with WordPress.
• XML/SWF Charts makes the graphs pretty.
• I use jQuery and clueTip to make the DHTML and AJAX easy.
• The tabs along the top are from Sliding Doors of CSS by Douglas Bowman. I stole the css for the side tabs from GMail.
• The team logos are from Chris Creamer’s wonderful SportsLogos.Net.
• The translation flags are a mixture of Trevor Creech’s use of Google Translate and IconDrawer’s images.

Sports stats and blogroll

The Hardball Times is chock full of stats.
HockeyAnalysis.com has lots of great Hockey stats.
Look it up in the hockeyDB.
The Book has great baseball stat info, a blog, and all kinds of rankings.
BaseballRace.com visually shows you how the season is progressing, like the carnival game where you squirt water to make your horse race to the finish.
Baseball Musings, home of the Day by Day Database.
Like the Reds, like stats? Check out On Baseball & the Reds.

Craig Custance talks hockey for Sporting News.
Say hello to James Mirtle From The Rink, home of the the playoff push.
Ducks, Kings, Sharks, it’s the Battle of California.
The Nasty Boys rule the Dayton to Lexington corridor.
Dodgers fans read it hot from the Baseball Toaster.
The Dodgers are so named because you use to have to dodge trolleys to get to Eastern Park in Brooklyn.
Dodger Sims predicts todays games.
Wile E. reads ACME Dodgers.
Lots of good stuff on Ben Maller’s site.
Read about the Tigers on The Detroit Tigers Weblog (est. 2001) and Bless You Boys.
Everybody wants more Signal to Noise.
Kansas City fans read the Royals Review.
Want to read about the Blue Jays? Check out Jays Nest.
Cradle to grave Sox fans read Sawxblog.
Nothing stopping the Red Sox Monster.
Red Sox fans, check out FenwayNation.
Everybody Keep Your Sox On.
Boston is the Fire Brand of the American League.
Come all without, come all within, the mighty Quinn media machine.
The indubitable Mr. Black and White.
The perfect storm for Red Sox and Huskies fans, SOX & Dawgs.
Yankees live on The Bronx Block.
Pinstripe Passion, a new look at the Yankees.
Phillies & Pirates fans know We Should Be GM’s.
John tells the behind-the-scenes story of the Phillies at Finger Food.
Go with the Phillies Flow.
Drink it up at Beer Leaguer.
Mike Sielski talks sports in the PhillyBurbs.
A blog about, you know, Balls, Sticks, & Stuff.
Cleanse yourself at Philly Purge.
Go on a Philly Sports Quest.
A place to read about All Philadelphia Sports.
Dan Steinberg writes about the Nationals at D.C. Sports Blog.
WWN covers the Nationals and Penn State football.
Show your colors at Nationals Pride.
Marlins show their Fish Stripes.
Devil Rays fans congregate on Rays Index.
A site for the Cubs Faithful, Chicago Cubs Online.
Spend you days in Wrigleyville.
Another Cubs Blog, and Baby Bears - Yet another Cubs Blog
Who is that wonderful Texas gal out in Center Field?
Get the lowdown on the St. Louis scene at Inside STL.
Displaced (or not) Cardinal fans roost at Cardinals Diaspora.
The ultimate community, Cards Clubhouse.
All the St. Louis sports are in Saint Louis Sports Magazine.
Texas fans roam on the Rangers Blog.
The one stop shop for The Cleveland Fan.
Diamondbacks slither in the AZ Snake Pit.
Fanster has Arizona covered.
In Section 132 Row 15 Seat 14 resides the author of Diary of a Diehard and Now Hitting.
Are you a member of the Twins Nation?
Follow along the Baseball Evolution.
Say Hi to A.J. at AJ’s Sports Blog.
Mets fans love to talk about Mostly Mets.
It’s a Braves News World.
Nothing like a friendly rivalry, the spice of live, Go Mets Die Braves.
Padres and sabermetrics fans follow the Friar Forecast.
Brewers fans never tire of Al’s Ramblings, and drink it up at the Brewers Bar.
Up in the Rockies, fans know Monforts Must Sell.
Giants fans Say Hey.
Find baseball literature at Bugs & Cranks.
I did not realize that 2 MLB parks where further north than the Blue Jays’ Rogers Centre. That and lots more at MLB4U.
Mike Mitchell’s Southeast Missouri Sports Blog.
Check out SportsVoice for fantasy baseball data feeds with a personal touch.
John Skilton’s Baseball Links has every baseball link in the universe, including this one. :)
Tons of links at The Virtual Library of Sport.
Lots of top notch NASCAR info at Jayski’s Silly Season Site.
All it takes is One Bad Wheel. Thanks for all your help Darren.
Restrictor Plate This buddy.
You better get yourself to church, The Church of the Great Oval.
The flash, the smell, the Green Flags and Tire Smoke.
Go say hello to SNAFAM, the Supreme NAscar Fan Merri.
Nothing beats a little Ranting and Raving.
Say hi to Andreas at the Driver Database.
Who doesn’t love a Tall Glass Of Milk.
Valli tells the story of The Fast and the Fabulous
Talk with Lena about the race at the NASCAR FanZone
The blog for the fastest 2 hours on radio is Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie.
Hold on, there’s Trouble in Turn 2.
That’s going to get you a Black Flag.
Straight outta Charlotte, The Catfish Show.
NASCAR fans read the Stock Car Gazette at Motor Sports News.
See what’s going down at Stock Car City.
Laidback Racing, the tailgater’s haven.
Handicapping at Nascapper.
Eagles fans bleed green.
Pittsburgh fans can never get enough mini ponies.
Hurricanes wreak havoc in Canes Country.
Philadelphia listens to Harry Mayes and Jamie Yannacone on Sports Radio 950.
Joe Ovies calls it like he sees it on 620 The Bull.
Sports fans find careful considerations at Knee Jerk City.
And there is always Mr. Irrelevant.
Are you a Nets Fan in New York?
Get on your Geek Soap Box and tell it like it is.
Life is an Epic Carnival.
Say hello to my friend from São Paulo at the Blog do Fábio Seixas.
After each F1 race Christine and company do a first rate recap on sidepodcast.
Find F1 info, stats and records at Formula 1 complete.
Say hi to Duncan from Kirkcaldy, Scotland at DOCTORVEE.
Formula 1 Podcast: Mundo F1.
Check out 4mula1 for Formula 1 history and statistics since 1950.
Talk about the race at Champ Car Fanatics.
Everybody loves Fast Machines.
Follow IRL and Champ Car at PressDog.com.
Say hello to Allan at Indy Pro Racer.
Juicy rumors and trifling opinions at IRL-O-Rama.
Johnson’s Indy 500 has everything under the sun about the Indianapolis 500.
Your source for truck series news and commentary is TruckSeries.com.
Sporting news web 2.0 style on Ballhype, Yardbarker and ArmchairGM.
The fantasy sports blog, Fake Teams.
Find out The Buried Lead.
Cook up something good at Sweet Lou’s Baseball Lab.
The Benchwarmer, funny, smart sports writing by Michael Zuidema.
Bert Kassies has everything about European Cup Football.
Watch Live Football Online.
Go RailHawks.
Football club histories and logos, the interesting stuff, at Albion Road.
Can’t stop the Quakes.
Find DC United and the MLS Dogpile at The Fullback Files.

Other friends

Jeff Pulver at The Jeff Pulver Blog.
John Cox at Wyome.com.
George at Brewed Fresh Daily.
Bob Norman at The Daily Pulp.
Rob Gebeloff at Stat Attack.
Stephen O’Grady at RedMonk’s tecosystems.
Dr. Burgess-Jackson at Keith Burgess-Jackson.
John at Mystic Chords.
Gary LaPointe at Gary Said.
Chris at ChrisPalombi.com.
Eric Berg inspired me with his work putting sports results on the web in XML format.
Kirby at Starbucks.
Duff, Raleigh’s home remodeling pro, at Reconstruct.
Justin, for all your stats help and encouragement. I like his Freakonomicsesque blog Wehr in the World.