MLB Power Rankings: Yanks on Top, But Two Teams Continue to Inch Closer

WhatIfSports.com by Senior Analyst Written on August 31, 2009
20090831_btb_main_feature

WhatIfSports.com utilizes its award-winning baseball simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 30 teams in baseball.

To come up with the rankings, using only their statistical performance to date this season, each team is simulated against every other team 100 times—so that all five pitchers in the current rotation start 10 times at each location. Rosters, rotations and stats are up-to-date through Saturday.

(Note:This means that if a pitcher who was in the rotation was recently put on the DL, he will not be included in the simulations. This is true of position players as well, but an injury to a position player will usually have a lesser impact on the weekly results.)

Teams Ranked by Winning Percentage
(everyone plays everyone 100 times)

  Team Change Win Pct RS/G RA/G
1. New York Yankees - 63.4 6.2 4.6
2. Los Angeles Dodgers - 61.8 5.3 4.0
3. St. Louis Cardinals +3 60.8 4.8 3.7
4. Tampa Bay Rays -1 58.7 5.6 4.5
5. Philadelphia Phillies -1 58.0 5.5 4.6
6. Texas Rangers -1 56.7 5.1 4.5
7. Boston Red Sox +3 54.7 5.4 4.8
8. Atlanta Braves - 54.6 4.8 4.3
9. Colorado Rockies -2 54.5 5.2 4.8
10. Minnesota Twins +1 53.9 5.0 4.6
  Team Change Win Pct RS/G RA/G
11. Chicago Cubs +5 53.3 4.9 4.6
12. Toronto Blue Jays -3 51.3 4.9 4.7
13. Arizona Diamondbacks +2 51.0 4.9 4.8
14. Florida Marlins -2 50.3 5.0 5.0
15. Los Angeles Angels -2 49.9 5.7 5.8
16. Milwaukee Brewers +3 49.6 5.3 5.3
17. Chicago White Sox - 48.9 4.5 4.7
18. Cleveland Indians +4 48.9 5.1 5.3
19. Detroit Tigers -5 48.2 4.7 4.9
20. Seattle Mariners - 48.2 4.4 4.6
  Team Change Win Pct RS/G RA/G
21. Washington Nationals +4 46.6 5.0 5.5
22. San Francisco Giants -1 46.1 4.1 4.5
23. Houston Astros - 44.3 4.6 5.2
24. Pittsburgh Pirates - 44.2 4.4 5.0
25. Oakland Athletics +1 43.6 4.4 5.0
26. Kansas City Royals +2 42.4 4.3 5.1
27. Cincinnati Reds - 41.0 4.4 5.2
28. New York Mets -10 39.6 4.9 6.0
29. Baltimore Orioles +1 39.1 4.8 6.0
30. San Diego Padres -1 36.5 4.2 5.7

Paul Bessire is the Product Manager of Content and Quantitative Analysis for WhatIfSports.com, a division of FOX Sports Interactive specializing in free mlb matchup analysis and baseball sim leagues. With any comments, questions or topic suggestions, Paul can be reached at BtB@whatifsports.com. Thanks!

(0)
...
Share This  
Crop_45x45
or to post this comment

1 Comments

There are no comments yet. Get the conversation started by leaving the first comment

Loading more comments...
posted just now
  • Loading...
  • Nobody has liked this comment yet
Cancel

This comment and all replies have been deleted This comment has been deleted Undo delete

466
reads

1
comments

written on August 31, 2009 Rankings/List

The best Yankees newsletter on the web

Subscribe Now

We will never share your email address


CBS Sports Official Partner
Certain photos copyright © 2009 by Getty Images.
Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Getty Images is strictly prohibited.