Thanks to the greater than 1,200 individuals who signed up for the FanGraphs Fan Change Program. Congratulations to these of you who noticed out all the week. Whereas everybody acquired to see their new crew win at the least as soon as, I do really feel obliged to apologize to these of you who wound up with the Nationals and kicked off the week by watching them lose three straight to the Rockies.
Anecdotally, it looks like this experiment was at the least a welcome change of tempo in the course of a protracted baseball season, and some of you actually dedicated to the bit, which is nice. Nonetheless, I do have (admittedly modest) social science aspirations for this experiment, and in furtherance of that aim, I want to name on everybody who participated for one final favor:
I’ll look over the information within the coming weeks, so search for a précis of the outcomes someday across the All-Star break. I’ve additionally included questions right here to gauge the extent of curiosity in repeating this course of subsequent season, and what would possibly change in Yr Two. If there’s adequate curiosity, we’ll do all of it once more subsequent summer season.
Thanks once more to your participation, and I look ahead to studying your ideas.