Comparing St Louis Cardinals projections from this spring to the end of season results

Now that I have opined regarding any praise that can be directed towards the 2026 Cardinals, as well as critiqued the sub .500 team, how did projections systems do in projecting outcomes? Well as it turns out, ZiPS was very close to projecting the win total for the Cardinals. When I averaged several of the more accurate projections systems together, I found a 78 win ceiling. So the 2026 Cardinals could’ve realistically won about 1 more game than they did. This turned out to be the Pythagorean win total as well.