R.B.I. Baseball Presents The GaGa Projection System Posted by The Duke of GaGa |

So it's time to reveal some truths about the GaGa Projection System. While other systems make heavy use of computers to predict future performance, the GaGa system brings together man and machine. I mean, after all, baseball is a game played by men, so any projection that fails to account for the human side of the game is inherently flawed. So how do man and machine come together? We will use the 1987 Nintendo video game R.B.I Baseball, with updated rosters for 2010 (thanks to TecmoTurd for editing the rosters), and by taking control of the Seattle Mariners and playing their entire 162 game schedule, we will find out how the real Seattle Mariners will do. As we all know, what happens in the R.B.I. Baseball world exactly mimics real life. Unfortunately, playing out 162 games will take quite a long time, so we are shooting to complete the season by mid-July. This will allow Mariners fans to rest easy for the second half of the season, they won't be biting their nails or shaking in their boots, instead they will know exactly how the season will turn out.

So we think you are probably wondering about the major assumption in this post: that R.B.I. Baseball (with us at the helm) will correctly predict what happens in real life. How can we trust such a complex process to a 23 year old video game? Well, all you have to do is witness its accuracy as it plays out Game 6 of the 1986 World Series: