While Bryce Harper is a stone-cold lock to run away with the National League MVP honors, it’s not easy to forecast the outcomes for many of the 2015 MLB award races.
After sifting through the stats from the season that was and examining the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballots from recent campaigns, what follows are predictions for final vote totals for the three finalists in each race.
Before getting started with the predictions, the voting process needs to be broken down. For each award, 30 voters cast ballots. As will be laid out in the slides that follow, first-place, second-place and third-place votes (and so on) are attached to different point values for different awards.
With those rules in place, let’s predict which stars will win in landslides, like Harper, and which big names will be involved in fierce races.