The A's are the second best team in baseball!

by Vaillant on Sep 13, 2005 2:45 PM PDT

Neyer/James lovers out there will appreciate this...

ExWP: Expected winning percentage - ExW-L and ExWP are derived from Bill James' Pythagorean theorem of baseball: Runs scored [squared] / (Runs scored [squared] + runs allowed [squared]). This formula was designed to relate a team's runs scored and runs allowed to its won-lost record.

I'm sure most of you are familiar with this. What you may not have realized is that currently (2:44 PM on 09/13), the A's sit second only to the Cardinals in expected winning percentage. If you look in the column on the right, you can see the expected winning percentage:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/rpi

.626 Cardinals
.588 A's
.583 Braves/Indians
.579 LAAAAAA
.573 ChiSox
.564 BoSox
.558 Mets
.546 Yankees/Astros

Just thought it was an interesting thing to point out. Sure, games aren't played on paper and besides being good, you have to be lucky, but still, here we are in a transition/rebuilding year and we are already ahead of all of the $100 million+ teams. I'll be ordering my season tickets for 2006 shortly!

~ Matt

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.573 ChiSox and .558 Mets

isn't that interesting

Rock over London, Rock on Oakland. Wheaties: It's the Breakfast of Champions.

by Cutthemullet on Sep 13, 2005 4:10 PM PDT reply actions

.613 and .497...

in the much less interesting realm of reality, by the way

Rock over London, Rock on Oakland. Wheaties: It's the Breakfast of Champions.

by Cutthemullet on Sep 13, 2005 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Mets

What's impressive is that the Strength of Schedule for the Mets is so high, yet they've played pretty well. I guess that comes from the rest of the division all being so good.

The 5 lowest SOS? The NL West, of course!

Macha Lekka Hi - Macha Hiney Ho!

by Vaillant on Sep 13, 2005 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions