| Does this thing still exist? I got internet back at home today. It had been gone for most of a week. I went to the library yesterday afternoon to use the library's internet connection, and I did some internet from school on Monday. It's nice to be able to internet in pajamas, though.  I've resolved the distribution of losing football scores from college football this season into a sum of Poisson distributions. If you supposed that every second of the game was independent of every other second — doubtable, to be sure — then if, every 1000th of the game, a team scored 7 points with a probability of .00139, 3 points with probability of 0.00044, 6 points with a probability of 0.00036, etc. — i.e., a 1000th of the number of the corresponding point on the plot — then the team's final score would follow the distribution of losing scores in college football this past season. If you're a real hard-core nerd, this might interest you.
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| | W | L | games ahead | | Rays | 92 | 61 | 6 | | Red Sox | 90 | 64 | 3.5 | | Yankees | 84 | 71 | -3 | | Blue Jays | 83 | 72 | -4 | | W | L |
| | White Sox | 85 | 68 | -1 | | Twins | 83 | 72 | -4 | | W | L | | | Anaheim | 94 | 59 | 8 | | W | L |
| | Mets | 86 | 67 | 2 | | Phillies | 86 | 68 | 1.5 | | Marlins | 81 | 72 | -3 | | W | L | | | Cubs | 93 | 60 | 9 | | Brewers | 84 | 71 | -1 | | Astros | 81 | 72 | -3 | | Cardinals | 80 | 74 | -4.5 | | W | L |
| | Dodgers | 80 | 74 | -4.5 | | Diamondbacks | 76 | 77 | -8 | The Cubs have clinched the division title. Four more wins would guarantee them the best record in the National League; it's all but certain they'll host the loser of the NL East race in the first round of the playoffs.
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| | W | L | games ahead | | Rays | 87 | 57 | 5 | | Red Sox | 85 | 60 | 2.5 | | Blue Jays | 78 | 67 | -4.5 | | Yankees | 77 | 69 | -6 | | W | L |
| | White Sox | 81 | 64 | -1.5 | | Twins | 80 | 65 | -2.5 | | W | L |
| | Anaheim | 88 | 57 | 5.5 | | W | L |
| | Mets | 82 | 63 | 1.5 | | Phillies | 79 | 67 | -2 | | Marlins | 74 | 72 | -7 | | W | L |
| | Cubs | 87 | 58 | 6.5 | | Brewers | 83 | 63 | 2 | | Astros | 79 | 67 | -2 | | Cardinals | 78 | 67 | -2.5 | | W | L |
| | Dodgers | 75 | 71 | -6 | | Diamondbacks | 71 | 74 | -9.5 | | Rockies | 67 | 79 | -14 |
Anaheim has clinched. The other divisions have at least a week to go.
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