South Side Sox, a Chicago White Sox community

The South Side Sox community projects a surprising AL Central division winner. Plus, one paragraph capsules for all the clubs.

Let's use our community projection technique to come up with a South Side Sox user-generated prediction for the AL Central standings. To log your entry, fill out the form after the jump.

The Carlos Quentin projection was easily our most consistent effort so far. I only had to throw out one entry -- somebody who thought Q! would slug .340 while hitting 35 HR -- and as you can see by...

Using Gavin Floyd to better understand projection systems and come up with a (hopefully more accurate) projection of our own.

The results from SSS' community projection.

Josh Fields was once considered the White Sox 3B of the future. Can he restore his position now that they've brought in significant competition.

I was a little bit surprised that these projections weren't overly optimistic. The counting stats could probably use my plucked from thin air 5% adjustment, but the rate stats seem pretty accurate...

Alexei Ramirez is next up in our community projection project. Alexei began the '08 season as the opening day center fielder, an experiment that only lasted two games. He played sporadically...

Thanks to all who participated. The final projection uses 76 entries (after I removed 4-5 crazy-to-impossible entries), and came out much more realistic that I originally thought. Full spreadsheet...