WASHINGTON D.C., April 19th - Throughout the offseason, I was on a quest to find a formula to do my power rankings for me for the 2010 season. So here’s the official disclaimer: I have not manually tweaked these power rankings in any way. They were calculated by my formulas which will be detailed below. Be advised that the first few weekly power rankings always look odd because of small-sample sizes.
Now that that’s out of the way, here are the power rankings for the second week of 2010. These will be posted every Monday.
|
Team |
wOBA + |
FIP + |
DRS+ |
Power Score |
|
1. Twins (2) |
109 |
104 |
329 |
542 |
|
2. Indians (14) |
91 |
89 |
287.5 |
467.5 |
|
3. Rays (15) |
100 |
96 |
246.5 |
442.5 |
|
4. Cardinals (12) |
98 |
114 |
226 |
438 |
|
5. Angels (10) |
99 |
105 |
226 |
430 |
|
6. Blue Jays (5) |
98 |
108 |
205.5 |
411.5 |
|
7. Mariners (7) |
91 |
90 |
205.5 |
386.5 |
|
8. Athletics (8) |
94 |
113 |
144 |
351 |
|
9. Rangers (4) |
92 |
91 |
123.5 |
306.5 |
|
10. Rockies (1) |
102 |
105 |
82 |
289 |
|
11. Reds (23) |
91 |
95 |
102.5 |
288.5 |
|
12. D-backs (16) |
104 |
98 |
82 |
284 |
|
13. White Sox (3) |
94 |
106 |
82 |
282 |
|
14. Giants (13) |
108 |
110 |
61.5 |
279.5 |
|
15. Cubs (22) |
101 |
114 |
41 |
256 |
|
16. Pirates (28) |
98 |
94 |
61.5 |
253.5 |
|
17. Phillies (9) |
115 |
118 |
20.5 |
253.5 |
|
18. Padres (19) |
100 |
118 |
20.5 |
238.5 |
|
19. Braves (6) |
97 |
106 |
20.5 |
223.5 |
|
20. Mets (24) |
90 |
93 |
0 |
183 |
|
21. Brewers (27) |
105 |
107 |
-41 |
171 |
|
22. Dodgers (20) |
112 |
96 |
-61.5 |
146.5 |
|
23. Nationals (30) |
107 |
81 |
-61.5 |
126.5 |
|
24. Yankees (26) |
118 |
106 |
-102.5 |
121.5 |
|
25. Astros (25) |
71 |
106 |
-61.5 |
115.5 |
|
26. Orioles (18) |
91 |
104 |
-82 |
113 |
|
27. Marlins (17) |
102 |
97 |
-123.5 |
75.5 |
|
28. Red Sox (11) |
101 |
89 |
-123.5 |
66.5 |
|
29. Royals (29) |
113 |
84 |
-164.5 |
32.5 |
|
30. Tigers (21) |
108 |
93 |
-246.5 |
-45.5 |
I took every team’s wOBA, FIP, and DRS and calculated each component against the average. I then summed them, creating the power score. I weighted them as 2/5 batting, 2/5 pitching, 1/5 fielding. The main reason that the table looks off is because the DRS scores haven’t evened out yet. Right now they have an incredibly large variance.
Notes
- ·The Indians (14 to 2), Rays (15 to 3), Reds (23 to 11), and Pirates (28 to 16), tied for the largest gain, pickingup 12 spots.
- · On the other side of things, the Red Sox lost the most ground, plummeting from 11 to 28.
- · The AL West looks to be the cream of the crop right now, with four teams in the top ten.
- · Under the new weighting system, only the Tigers were bad enough to maintain a negative power score.
That’s all for today, check back next Monday for the week 3 power rankings.
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