We'd all like to know the future sometimes. We'd all like to pull a Marty McFly and know how our team will do that year. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your point of view, this isn't possible. We just have to wait until the future occurs, which according to Einstein will be ``soon enough."

But it's still nice to have a general idea of what might occur, and that's where the business of projections comes in. Everyone has their projection system. Baseball Prospectus has one. FanGraphs has one. And of course, I have one.

So that's where the rest of this is going. I'll give a little background on what I'm doing here, and then give the results of the projections. And as always, remember what Yogi Berra (Or Neils Bohr) said: ``Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."

So in my predicted standings, I ran 10,000 simulated seasons to see how each team did. In these 10,000, I tried to integrate out as many sources of variability as possible. These sources of variability were 1) Variability in how many runs a team scores/allows, 2) Variability in whether the pitching team or hitting team is responsible for the number of runs scored, and 3) Variability in average runs scored and variance of runs scored. These values were changed throughout the 10,000 simulations around a central expected value.

To get the mean values for the runs scored/allowed, I used a weighted average of ZiPS, Steamer, and my own projections for players adjusted for expected playing time. I won't detail my own projections because that'd take a little while. The probability that the pitching team is responsible for the runs scored is a shade over 50% according to 2013 estimates (50.3% to be exact).

So that's enough explanation. Now onto the actual projected standings. Included are the median wins and minimum/maximum reasonable wins (Defined as the 2.5 and 97.5 percentiles). And as always, remember the words of Yogi.

Division Team Median Wins Minimum Reasonable Wins Maximum Reasonable Wins AL East Red Sox 88 82 95 AL East Rays 87 81 95 AL East Yankees 82 77 90 AL East Orioles 79 70 85 AL East Blue Jays 78 72 86 Division Team Median Wins Minimum Reasonable Wins Maximum Reasonable Wins AL Central Tigers 90 85 94 AL Central Indians 84 77 89 AL Central Royals 80 74 85 AL Central White Sox 77 71 84 AL Central Twins 72 67 78 Division Team Median Wins Minimum Reasonable Wins Maximum Reasonable Wins AL West Oakland 85 80 91 AL West Rangers 82 77 89 AL West Angels 80 74 85 AL West Mariners 76 69 81 AL West Astros 69 61 77 Division Team Median Wins Minimum Reasonable Wins Maximum Reasonable Wins NL East Nationals 88 84 93 NL East Braves 86 81 92 NL East Phillies 78 73 83 NL East Mets 77 70 84 NL East Marlins 68 60 75 Division Team Median Wins Minimum Reasonable Wins Maximum Reasonable Wins NL Central Cardinals 87 83 93 NL Central Reds 83 78 88 NL Central Pirates 81 75 88 NL Central Brewers 77 72 81 NL Central Cubs 74 68 79 Division Team Median Wins Minimum Reasonable Wins Maximum Reasonable Wins NL West Dodgers 89 84 95 NL West Giants 84 79 89 NL West Diamondbacks 80 74 86 NL West Padres 78 71 84 NL West Rockies 75 70 80

So this looks similar to what is seen on Baseball Prospectus and FanGraphs, with a few exceptions. My projections like the Angels, Mariners, and Marlins a lot less, while liking the Pirates and Indians a bit more. However, again, things look pretty similar around the projections.

So that's it. Now all that remains is to play out the season. I'll probably get a few of these right, but a bunch wrong (And wrong by a lot), which will just another reminder of how difficult all this is to get right with high precision.

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Statistics courtesy of FanGraphs.

Stephen Loftus is an editor at Beyond The Box Score. You can follow him on Twitter at @stephen__loftus.