WASHINGTON D.C., April 27th - 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 third week of 2010. These will be posted every Monday.
|
Team |
wOBA + |
FIP + |
DRS+ |
Power Score |
|
1. Cardinals (4) |
98 |
126 |
180 |
314 |
|
2. Mariners (7) |
91 |
97 |
237 |
306.5 |
|
3. Rays (3) |
104 |
96 |
205 |
302.5 |
|
4. Rockies (10) |
105 |
111 |
156 |
294 |
|
5. Twins (1) |
108 |
109 |
149 |
291.5 |
|
6. Phillies (17) |
107 |
100 |
168 |
291 |
|
7. Padres (18) |
100 |
109 |
149 |
283.5 |
|
8. D-backs (12) |
110 |
86 |
162 |
277 |
|
9. Athletics (8) |
96 |
118 |
118 |
273 |
|
10. Indians (2) |
89 |
93 |
180 |
272 |
|
11. Blue Jays (6) |
97 |
101 |
143 |
269.5 |
|
12. Giants (14) |
101 |
122 |
87 |
266.5 |
|
13. Rangers (9) |
96 |
93 |
149 |
263.5 |
|
14. Cubs (15) |
105 |
122 |
68 |
261 |
|
15. Yankees (24) |
112 |
109 |
75 |
258.5 |
|
16. Braves (19) |
94 |
113 |
87 |
250.5 |
|
17. White Sox (13) |
95 |
115 |
81 |
250.5 |
|
18. Angels (5) |
98 |
89 |
124 |
249 |
|
19. Nationals (23) |
104 |
86 |
118 |
249 |
|
20. Mets (20) |
93 |
109 |
68 |
236 |
|
21. Astros (25) |
84 |
121 |
44 |
227 |
|
22. Reds (11) |
95 |
88 |
81 |
223.5 |
|
23. Tigers (30) |
106 |
98 |
37 |
222.5 |
|
24. Orioles (26) |
93 |
103 |
37 |
214.5 |
|
25. Royals (29) |
107 |
83 |
44 |
212 |
|
26. Brewers (21) |
112 |
90 |
6 |
205 |
|
27. Dodgers (22) |
108 |
92 |
6 |
203 |
|
28. Marlins (27) |
97 |
100 |
0 |
197 |
|
29. Red Sox (28) |
101 |
92 |
6 |
196 |
|
30. Pirates (16) |
93 |
79 |
31 |
187.5 |
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 biggest stock boost went to the Phillies and Padres, who moved to 6 and 7, from 17 and 18, respectively.
- · The Rangers and White Sox continued their falls, Texas has gone from 4 to 13 in two weeks, and the ChiSox gone from 3 to 17 in that same span. But the greatest drop of the week went to the Pirates (16 to 30).
- · The divisions look balanced, only the NL West put more than two teams in the top 10
- · Negative power scores were eliminated, I added a normalization constant to balance out negative DRS scores.
That’s all for today, check back next Monday for the week 4 power rankings.
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