In-game win probability

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Win probability for every game in progress, recomputed as the score and inning change. The model is fit from our own inning-by-inning data rather than borrowed from a published table.

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What the number is

And what it deliberately leaves out

The estimate is P(home team wins) given the run differential, the inning and which half is being played, fit from every half-inning state in 600 completed games.

Base-out state is not included yet. Runners on second and third with one out genuinely matters, but it moves win probability by a few points while score and innings remaining move it by tens. Adding it is a real improvement and is listed as future work rather than quietly implied.

One check worth mentioning: the first fit was not monotone — the raw sample claimed that being two runs down in the third was better than being one run down. That is impossible, it was small-sample noise, and a sanity check caught it before this page existed. Isotonic regression fixed it.