IP Sports Baseball Rankings: 06/11/2010

A couple of teams make surges into the top 10.

These aren’t your typical rankings; I look at record, run differential, and farm system. I weigh the scores on all 3; record makes up half the score, the run differential makes up a third of the score, and a sixth of the score is from farm system.

For Run Differential, I use the Pythagorean Theorem formulated by Bill James to see what a teams record should be; you can predict how well a team should be playing by this. In theory, a team should be in about the same range for their Pythagorean Record as their true record.

Rank	Team		Record	Pythagorean	System	Total	Last Week
1		TB Rays	30	30	28	59	1
2		Atlanta Braves	24	26	30	51	2
3		NY Yankees	29	29	7	51	3
4		San Diego Padres	27	28	8	48	4
5		Minnesota Twins	26	25	13	47	6
6		LA Dodgers	28	15	23	46	7
7		Boston Red Sox	23	19	27	45	9
8		Toronto Blue Jays	22	20	26	44	8
9		Cincinnati Reds	25	17	21	43	5
10		Texas Rangers	21	21	14	40	16
11		San Francisco Giants	19	24	11	39	11
12		STL Cardinals	20	27	1	38	10
13		Philadelphia Phillies	18	22	9	36	12
14		NY Mets	17	18	6	31	18
15		LA Angels	16	11	18	29	19
16		Colorado Rockies	13	23	3	29	15
17		Florida Marlins	11	16	22	29	13
18		Detroit Tigers	14	14	12	27	14
19		Oakland Athletics	15	13	10	27	17
20		Chicago Cubs	10	12	24	26	20
21		Washington Nationals	12	10	16	24	21
22		KC Royals	6	8	29	21	23
23		Chicago White Sox	9	9	15	20	24
24		Houston Astros	7	3	17	15	27
25		Cleveland Indians	4	6	20	15	28
26		Milwaukee Brewers	8	7	5	14	26
27		Seattle Mariners	2	4	25	13	22
28		Pittsburgh Pirates	3	1	19	10	25
29		Arizona Diamondbacks	5	5	2	9	29
30		Baltimore Orioles	1	2	4	4	30

If the playoffs started today…

Tags: Baseball, Power Rankings