Lucky Florida teams
Predicting the baseball postseason is an annual tradition on this otherwise defunct blog, so, as busy as I am, I'll take a few minutes to do the same kind of analysis I've done the last thirteen years, essentially factoring out each team's luck to see how good they really were this season. The Nostradamian, Pythagorean and actual win percentages for all teams in 2020:
nW% | pW% | W% | |
---|---|---|---|
Dodgers | 0.713753 | 0.711692 | 0.716667 |
Padres | 0.617547 | 0.633491 | 0.616667 |
Braves | 0.608826 | 0.585723 | 0.583333 |
White Sox | 0.596763 | 0.598544 | 0.583333 |
Twins | 0.581751 | 0.601101 | 0.600000 |
Yankees | 0.578828 | 0.570060 | 0.550000 |
Rays | 0.573901 | 0.604882 | 0.666667 |
Giants | 0.560897 | 0.503070 | 0.483333 |
Indians | 0.543751 | 0.577642 | 0.583333 |
Reds | 0.543271 | 0.500000 | 0.516667 |
Angels | 0.527212 | 0.459890 | 0.433333 |
Mets | 0.526750 | 0.466147 | 0.433333 |
Athletics | 0.525733 | 0.575541 | 0.600000 |
Brewers | 0.515599 | 0.469586 | 0.483333 |
Orioles | 0.509350 | 0.467813 | 0.416667 |
Cardinals | 0.505368 | 0.521451 | 0.517241 |
Cubs | 0.499782 | 0.545210 | 0.566667 |
Astros | 0.490059 | 0.506606 | 0.483333 |
Blue Jays | 0.479987 | 0.485101 | 0.533333 |
Phillies | 0.474304 | 0.492585 | 0.466667 |
Royals | 0.457575 | 0.457840 | 0.433333 |
Nationals | 0.440515 | 0.487679 | 0.433333 |
Red Sox | 0.417903 | 0.416592 | 0.400000 |
Mariners | 0.403726 | 0.419991 | 0.450000 |
Marlins | 0.394620 | 0.434106 | 0.516667 |
Diamondbacks | 0.389136 | 0.457889 | 0.416667 |
Rockies | 0.386206 | 0.387711 | 0.433333 |
Tigers | 0.382194 | 0.389928 | 0.396552 |
Pirates | 0.375709 | 0.362696 | 0.316667 |
Rangers | 0.369462 | 0.352885 | 0.366667 |
So this year the luckiest teams were the Marlins and Rays; the unluckiest were the Angels, Mets and Orioles. The Giants didn't make it into the 16-team playoffs despite being the eighth-best team in baseball; the Marlins made it in despite being the sixth-worst team in baseball. Unpredictability is amplified with such a short season, and the playoffs will be more chaotic than usual with so many teams.
Based on the above results, it's reasonable to predict:
Athletics over Astros | White Sox over Athletics | White Sox over Yankees | Dodgers over White Sox |
White Sox over Twins | |||
Yankees over Indians | Yankees over Rays | ||
Rays over Blue Jays | |||
Cubs over Marlins | Braves over Cubs | Dodgers over Braves | |
Braves over Reds | |||
Padres over Cardinals | Dodgers over Padres | ||
Dodgers over Brewers |
But what I'm rooting for is very different:
Athletics over Astros | Athletics over Twins | Blue Jays over Athletics | Blue Jays over Reds |
Twins over White Sox | |||
Indians over Yankees | Blue Jays over Indians | ||
Blue Jays over Rays | |||
Cubs over Marlins | Reds over Cubs | Reds over Padres | |
Reds over Braves | |||
Padres over Cardinals | Padres over Brewers | ||
Brewers over Dodgers |
I got all the statistics I needed for this analysis from these three pages: A B C
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