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Shout - SABR Matt - 3/9/16 12:40pm

<p>Sanders won MI because only his ardent supporters came out to vote #Democrat. Neither candidate is all that appealing to many #Democrats...they both have significant issues. So across the country, #Republican turnout is up 40% and #Democrat turnout is down like 20%. That implies that a lot of rare voters are voting in the GOP primaries for or against Trump, but a lot of #Democrats are also voting in the GOP primaries, for or against Trump.

Shout - drm - 3/9/16 11:44am

<p>I believe what happened in Mi with Sanders and Clinton was the Dems and #Independents voting for Trump.<br />
Reply - diderot - 3/9/16 12:08pmInteresting. Some of the commentators I saw today said the Dems and independents took a Republican ballot to vote AGAINST Trump.<br />
Either way...a miserable night for the pollsters.<br />
That could be- but either way that's probably why Sanders won.</p>

Shout - OBF - 3/9/16 10:18am

<p>Matt.... a ways down you talked about #Democrats and #Independents coming out in droves to vote for Trump... where did you find those stats? What would this mean for a general #Election where it is Trump vs Clinton? Trump vs Sanders? Everyone calls Trump unelectable... what if he has more dem support than we all think??</p>

Shout - SABR Matt - 9/16/15 6:50am

<p>Also note - I am of the opinion that park factors should be additive, not multiplicative...that a hitter's park adds X number of runs per game per side - it does not multiply the scoring by some percentage larger than 100...so the alternative to context-adjusting the probabilities of various events is to context-adjust the Elo rating itself by adding a +/- Z to the event winning percentages (the step right before you find the Elo change score...the W% is leverage and match-up #Independent...if I did this to the Elo ratings or the change scores for each play, I'd be calcul

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