Like Yogi always says:
... it ain't over 'till it's over!
Search for the final 2013 Won-Lost record of any of the 30 + 1 major league baseball.
The algorithm used is the Binary Search algorithm, which means that the teams are internally stored alphabetically from "Atlanta" to "Washington".
Experiment to get some sense of what the average number of comparisons is for a list of size 31 when it has binary searches performed on it.
Atlanta New York Mets Farmville Fanatics Miami Washington Philadelphia St. Louis Cincinnati Houston Pittsburgh Chicago Cubs Colorado Milwaukee San Francisco Arizona Los Angeles Dodgers San Diego New York Yankees Boston Toronto Baltimore Tampa Bay Chicago White Sox Cleveland Kansas City Detroit Minnesota Texas Los Angeles Angels Oakland Seattle
The team's record is
The number of comparisons was
Average number of comparisons thus far is