A New Power Ranking System For 2009

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The period between the last game of the World Series and the start of spring training can feel down right boring, especially if your favorite team isn't exactly a stalwart in the game that is free agency.

Over the last week, when the boredom reached a peak, I decided to formulate a power ranking system for baseball. This ranking system takes into account how good a team's offense is in comparison with its pitching and vice versa. I decided not to use the straight up runs scored and runs against in the calculation, but the method does use a variation of that.

One thing I did want to include in these rankings is actual won-loss record and the all important record within a team's own division. No matter how good or bad the division a team plays in happens to be, a team with a bad intra-division record isn't going anywhere.

These are the rankings at the end of the 2008 regular season:

Teams 1-15

Ranking Team Rating
1 CHC 141.835042
2 BOS 134.386805
3 PHI 125.440917
4 TBR 122.694103
5 TOR 121.883303
6 CHW 121.788491
7 MIN 116.926389
8 NYM 115.625924
9 LAA 114.351975
10 MIL 113.719771
11 NYY 112.404835
12 STL 111.070019
13 LAD 110.473019
14 CLE 108.153257
15 ARI 106.151184

Teams 16-30

Ranking Team Rating
16 FLA 103.663816
17 ATL 95.721598
18 DET 95.241455
19 TEX 91.539566
20 HOU 90.344417
21 OAK 88.268200
22 COL 85.162181
23 BAL 82.345077
24 KCR 82.164211
25 CIN 82.129348
26 SDP 77.080166
27 SFG 75.089242
28 PIT 70.319527
29 SEA 69.281549
30 WSN 66.011618