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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 start ten times
at each location.
(Note: This means that if a pitcher who was in the rotation was recently put on the DL, he will not be included in the simulations. This is true of position players as well, but an injury to one position player
will usually have a lesser impact on the week-to-week results.)
Teams Ranked by Winning Percentage
(everyone plays everyone 100 times)
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | New York Yankees | - | 62.8 | 5.1 | 3.8 |
| 2. | Philadelphia Phillies | +1 | 60.1 | 4.4 | 3.4 |
| 3. | Boston Red Sox | -1 | 58.0 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 4. | Milwaukee Brewers | +1 | 57.2 | 4.5 | 3.8 |
| 5. | Texas Rangers | -1 | 57.1 | 4.8 | 4.1 |
| 6. | Tampa Bay Rays | - | 55.8 | 4.0 | 3.5 |
| 7. | Los Angeles Angels | +2 | 55.5 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
| 8. | Detroit Tigers | +2 | 55.3 | 4.6 | 4.1 |
| 9. | Arizona Diamondbacks | +4 | 55.0 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
| 10. | St. Louis Cardinals | -2 | 54.9 | 4.6 | 4.0 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 11. | Cincinnati Reds | -4 | 53.2 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| 12. | Cleveland Indians | +2 | 51.9 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
| 13. | Los Angeles Dodgers | +2 | 51.8 | 4.0 | 3.8 |
| 14. | New York Mets | +3 | 51.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
| 15. | Toronto Blue Jays | -4 | 51.4 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
| 16. | San Francisco Giants | - | 49.6 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 17. | Atlanta Braves | -5 | 49.5 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| 18. | Florida Marlins | +3 | 48.2 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 19. | Kansas City Royals | -1 | 48.0 | 4.0 | 4.3 |
| 20. | Washington Nationals | -1 | 47.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 21. | Chicago White Sox | +1 | 46.4 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
| 22. | San Diego Padres | +2 | 46.2 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
| 23. | Oakland Athletics | - | 45.5 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
| 24. | Colorado Rockies | -4 | 44.9 | 4.3 | 4.7 |
| 25. | Seattle Mariners | +4 | 42.1 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
| 26. | Chicago Cubs | -1 | 41.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
| 27. | Pittsburgh Pirates | +1 | 41.8 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
| 28. | Houston Astros | -2 | 41.1 | 3.8 | 4.7 |
| 29. | Minnesota Twins | -2 | 39.3 | 3.4 | 4.5 |
| 30. | Baltimore Orioles | - | 37.0 | 4.0 | 5.4 |
Jake Westrich is the Digital Content Coordinator for WhatIfSports.com.
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