Using the Bill James math, it says Dodgers over Boston in 7 games

World Series predictions have been coming in from all precincts.

The smart money appears to be on the Boston Red Sox to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, based on a regular season that saw the Red Sox go 108-54 in the American League and the Dodgers go 92-71 in the National.

Once again, we'll dust off an old - now seemingly quaint - formula developed in the early 1980s by famed sabermetrician Bill James.

The formula went 1-for-2 in the championship series, favoring the Dodgers over the Milwaukee Brewers but indicating a victory for the Houston Astros over the Red Sox.

James boasted of a 70 percent success rate for his formula during the 1980s. Let's put it to work for the 2018 World Series.

• Give 1 point per one-half game difference in record. So the Red Sox get a whopping 33 points off the bat. Series over? Not so fast.

• The Red Sox get another 3 for more runs scored.

• The Dodgers get on the board with 14 for hitting fewer doubles than the Red Sox. For his formula, James never liked teams that hit a lot of doubles, writing that they "had been wiped out with demonic consistency."

• We'll give the Dodgers 12 more for hitting more triples.

• The Dodgers outhomered the Red Sox 235-208 so we'll give L.A. 10 points.

• James liked the team with the lower batting average, so the Dodgers (.250) get 8 points over the Red Sox, who led the majors in batting average (.268).

• The Red Sox get back on the board with 8 points for having committed few errors.

• For having turned more double plays, the Dodgers get 7 points.

• Red Sox pitchers walked more men than did the Dodgers' staff, and James liked that. So give Boston 7 points.

• Give the Red Sox a big 19 points for their pitchers having tossed 14 shutouts to 11 for the Dodgers.

• The Dodgers come right back with 15 for having the lower earned run average.

• Even though the Red Sox dominated the AL this year, James' formula favored the team that went to the postseason more recently or did better if the two teams went most recently in the same year. The Dodgers get 12 for making it to the World Series last year, when they lost to Houston.

Getting the adding machine out and doing the computations, the Dodgers get 78 points to 70 for the Red Sox.

So the formula seems to indicate the Dodgers in seven thrilling games.

Proceed with caution.