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 – 50 at home and 50 at the opposing ballpark so that all five pitchers in the current rotation start ten 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 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. | Los Angeles Dodgers | - | 63.5 | 5.7 | 4.2 |
| 2. | New York Mets | +1 | 61.9 | 5.8 | 4.5 |
| 3. | Toronto Blue Jays | -1 | 61.2 | 5.4 | 4.2 |
| 4. | St. Louis Cardinals | +4 | 59.7 | 4.7 | 3.8 |
| 5. | Milwaukee Brewers | +2 | 56.2 | 5.0 | 4.3 |
| 6. | New York Yankees | +8 | 55.7 | 5.7 | 5.1 |
| 7. | Detroit Tigers | -1 | 54.2 | 4.9 | 4.5 |
| 8. | Texas Rangers | -4 | 53.0 | 5.5 | 5.2 |
| 9. | Los Angeles Angels | - | 52.7 | 5.1 | 4.9 |
| 10. | Cincinnati Reds | +2 | 52.0 | 4.9 | 4.6 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 11. | Tampa Bay Rays | -6 | 51.3 | 5.7 | 5.4 |
| 12. | Philadelphia Phillies | +5 | 50.7 | 5.4 | 5.3 |
| 13. | Florida Marlins | +14 | 50.4 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
| 14. | Pittsburgh Pirates | +4 | 50.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| 15. | Chicago Cubs | +1 | 49.7 | 4.6 | 4.8 |
| 16. | Kansas City Royals | -5 | 49.6 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| 17. | Boston Red Sox | -2 | 49.4 | 5.2 | 5.3 |
| 18. | Atlanta Braves | -8 | 49.3 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| 19. | Minnesota Twins | -6 | 48.8 | 5.0 | 5.1 |
| 20. | Washington Nationals | - | 47.4 | 5.1 | 5.5 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 21. | Arizona Diamondbacks | - | 46.9 | 4.5 | 4.8 |
| 22. | San Diego Padres | +3 | 46.6 | 4.3 | 4.7 |
| 23. | Baltimore Orioles | +3 | 45.4 | 5.1 | 5.6 |
| 24. | Seattle Mariners | - | 44.7 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
| 25. | Colorado Rockies | -6 | 43.6 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
| 26. | Cleveland Indians | -4 | 43.0 | 5.1 | 6.0 |
| 27. | Houston Astros | -4 | 42.4 | 4.7 | 5.5 |
| 28. | San Francisco Giants | +1 | 41.9 | 3.8 | 4.7 |
| 29. | Chicago White Sox | +1 | 41.5 | 4.1 | 4.8 |
| 30. | Oakland Athletics | -2 | 37.0 | 3.8 | 5.0 |
Paul Bessire is the Product Manager of Content and Quantitative Analysis for WhatIfSports.com, a division of FOX Sports Interactive. With any comments, questions or topic suggestions, Paul can be reached at BtB@whatifsports.com. Thanks!
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