IP Sports Baseball Rankings: 07/23/2010

Things are starting to settle in, as most pretenders are falling out of the races…

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	29	29	28	58	1
2		NY Yankees	30	30	14	55	3
3		Atlanta Braves	28	24	29	54	2
4		San Diego Padres	27	27	9	48	4
5		Boston Red Sox	24	23	23	47	7
6		Texas Rangers	26	26	8	46	10
7		STL Cardinals	25	28	2	44	12
8		San Francisco Giants	22	25	13	43	11
9		Cincinnati Reds	21	22	17	41	9
10		Chicago White Sox	23	19	6	38	23
11		Minnesota Twins	18	21	16	37	5
12		Colorado Rockies	20	20	11	37	16
13		LA Dodgers	17	16	25	36	6
14		Philadelphia Phillies	15	17	12	30	13
15		LA Angels	16	11	19	30	15
16		Toronto Blue Jays	12	13	26	29	8
17		Detroit Tigers	19	12	3	28	18
18		NY Mets	14	18	5	28	14
19		Florida Marlins	11	14	21	27	17
20		Oakland Athletics	13	15	10	26	19
21		Chicago Cubs	9	10	22	23	20
22		KC Royals	7	6	30	21	22
23		Washington Nationals	8	9	15	19	21
24		Cleveland Indians	6	7	24	19	25
25		Milwaukee Brewers	10	8	7	18	26
26		Seattle Mariners	4	4	27	16	27
27		Houston Astros	5	3	20	14	24
28		Pittsburgh Pirates	2	1	18	9	28
29		Arizona Diamondbacks	3	5	4	8	29
30		Baltimore Orioles	1	2	1	3	30

If the playoffs started today…

Tags: Baseball, Power Rankings