Final MLB Power Rankings

Final MLB Power Rankings

Sept. 29, 2008 Rankings

By Paul Bessire, WhatIfSports.com

Sept. 29, 2008

WhatIfSports.com utilizes its award-winning baseball simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 30 teams in baseball each Monday during the regular season. 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–50 at home and 50 at the opposing ballpark—so that all five pitchers in the current rotation start 10 times at each location.

(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 and injury to one position player will usually have a lesser impact on the week-to-week results.)

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

	Team	Change	Win Pct	RS/G	RA/G
1.	Boston Red Sox	+1	62.4	5.4	4.1
2.	Chicago Cubs	-1	61.6	5.4	4.1
3.	Tampa Bay Rays	-	60.4	4.9	3.9
4.	Milwaukee Brewers	+2	58.5	4.8	4.1
5.	Philadelphia Phillies	-1	57.9	5.0	4.1
6.	Los Angeles Dodgers	-1	55.8	4.6	4.1
7.	St. Louis Cardinals	+5	54.6	5.1	4.5
8.	Toronto Blue Jays	+2	54.6	4.4	4.0
9.	New York Mets	-2	53.0	5.1	4.8
10.	Florida Marlins	-1	52.2	4.7	4.4
11.	Texas Rangers	+5	51.6	5.5	5.4
12.	Los Angeles Angels	+1	51.3	4.7	4.5
13.	Chicago White Sox	+1	51.0	4.6	4.5
14.	Houston Astros	+5	50.9	4.5	4.4
15.	New York Yankees	-7	50.4	4.9	4.8
16.	Minnesota Twins	+4	49.6	4.5	4.5
17.	Cleveland Indians	-6	49.4	4.8	4.8
18.	Detroit Tigers	-3	49.3	4.9	5.0
19.	Arizona Diamondbacks	-2	49.2	4.5	4.5
20.	Atlanta Braves	-2	48.2	4.7	5.0
21.	Cincinnati Reds	+1	45.9	4.6	5.1
22.	Kansas City Royals	+2	45.9	4.1	4.6
23.	Colorado Rockies	-2	44.9	4.6	5.1
24.	Baltimore Orioles	+4	44.7	4.9	5.4
25.	Seattle Mariners	-	43.7	4.1	4.7
26.	San Francisco Giants	-3	42.9	3.9	4.8
27.	Washington Nationals	-1	41.2	4.0	4.9
28.	San Diego Padres	-1	40.2	4.0	5.0
29.	Pittsburgh Pirates	-	40.1	4.3	5.5
30.	Oakland Athletics	-	38.6	3.8	5.0

 

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