Beyond The Boxscore
Beyond The Boxscore

MLB Power Rankings

5/5/08 Rankings
By Paul Bessire, WhatIfSports.com
May 5th, 2008

WhatIfSports.com utilizes its award-winning baseball simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 30 teams in baseball each Monday during the regular season. 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 pitch ten times at each location.

Teams Ranked by Winning Percentage
(everyone plays everyone 100 times)

 TeamWin PctRS/GRA/G
1.St. Louis Cardinals65.8%5.43.6
2.Arizona Diamondbacks65.6%5.53.7
3.Chicago Cubs63.8%5.94.3
4.Atlanta Braves61.8%5.03.8
5.Los Angeles Dodgers59.3%5.74.5
6.Tampa Bay Devil Rays58.2%4.63.8
7.Boston Red Sox58.0%5.14.3
8.Chicago White Sox57.9%4.33.6
9.Philadelphia Phillies56.7%4.94.2
10.Oakland Athletics53.8%4.33.8
11.Anaheim Angels52.6%4.74.7
12.Detroit Tigers52.3%5.24.9
13.Baltimore Orioles51.1%4.13.9
14.New York Mets51.0%4.74.7
15.Toronto Blue Jays50.9%4.14.0
 TeamWin PctRS/GRA/G
16.Cleveland Indians49.3%4.24.4
17.New York Yankees45.6%4.24.7
18.Cincinnati Reds45.4%4.55.0
19.Colorado Rockies45.0%4.34.8
20.San Diego Padres44.8%3.53.9
21.Minnesota Twins44.2%3.94.4
22.Florida Marlins44.1%4.55.2
23.Milwaukee Brewers42.8%4.45.3
24.Texas Rangers42.8%5.05.8
25.Houston Astros42.6%4.55.3
26.Kansas City Royals42.2%3.74.5
27.Seattle Mariners41.4%4.04.9
28.Pittsburgh Pirates39.3%4.15.2
29.Washington Nationals37.0%3.75.0
30.San Francisco Giants34.7%3.85.7

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