We’re down to the final month of the season, and things are really starting to get hairy for the Cubs. That’s because the Cardinals, whose playoff odds got as low as 17.7% back on July 2, have roared back from the dead. Hell, they were only at 28.7% on August 8 before boarding a rocket ship.
The Cubs had held the Central division’s highest playoff odds ever since getting to 68.3% on May 2, but they were eclipsed a little less than three months later. As of August 24, the Cubs were at 68.9% — not quite nice — while the Cards lingered on the periphery at 63.