New York Yankees Remain Atop the MLB Power Rankings, According to Simulation

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.

Here are the results:

(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 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.	New York Yankees	-	65.5	4.8	3.3
2.	Philadelphia Phillies	+1	59.4	4.0	3.2
3.	Boston Red Sox	-1	58.3	4.6	3.8
4.	Los Angeles Angels	+1	56.4	3.8	3.4
5.	Texas Rangers	+9	55.7	4.7	4.2
6.	New York Mets	+3	54.9	4.5	4.2
7.	Cincinnati Reds	-3	54.7	4.4	3.9
8.	St. Louis Cardinals	-1	54.7	4.5	3.9
9.	Detroit Tigers	+2	53.7	4.3	4.0
10.	Atlanta Braves	+3	52.6	3.6	3.3
	Team	Change	Win Pct	RS/G	RA/G
11.	Tampa Bay Rays	-3	52.2	3.9	3.6
12.	Milwaukee Brewers	-2	51.7	4.3	4.2
13.	Arizona Diamondbacks	+3	51.0	4.0	4.0
14.	Toronto Blue Jays	-8	50.3	4.0	3.9
15.	San Francisco Giants	-3	50.2	3.6	3.5
16.	Washington Nationals	+3	50.2	3.6	3.6
17.	Cleveland Indians	-2	50.0	3.8	3.8
18.	Chicago White Sox	+3	48.9	3.5	3.6
19.	Kansas City Royals	+3	48.1	4.0	4.1
20.	Los Angeles Dodgers	-2	47.9	3.8	4.0
	Team	Change	Win Pct	RS/G	RA/G
21.	Pittsburgh Pirates	+2	46.7	3.6	3.8
22.	Colorado Rockies	-5	45.8	4.0	4.5
23.	Seattle Mariners	-3	45.6	2.9	3.2
24.	San Diego Padres	+2	45.2	3.2	3.6
25.	Florida Marlins	-1	45.1	3.7	4.1
26.	Chicago Cubs	+3	43.1	4.1	4.8
27.	Oakland Athletics	-2	43.0	2.9	3.5
28.	Baltimore Orioles	-1	42.5	3.9	4.6
29.	Houston Astros	-1	39.4	3.7	4.7
30.	Minnesota Twins	-	37.1	3.2	4.5