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Federal forecasters announced that the current El Niño could rank among the strongest events in the historical record going back to 1950.

Also a "backronym" for former Major Leaguer Bill Pecota, PECOTA is Baseball Prospectus' system for projecting player performance. The acronym stands for "Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization ...