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2011 Major-League Team Performance Results

Teams Ranked by Manifested Ability

Through games as shown in the Tables.
All results are from true, unadjusted data.

The significance of the data in these Tables is not necessarily obvious at a glance. There is a complete explanation of all these Tables and the meaning of their entries available, and--although there are a few words farther below on this page--we much recommend that you read that full explanation before examining these Tables.


Seasonal Win Projections

"Manifested ability" means how well the teams have actually played so far this season; it does not mean "how good they really are", which is quite another matter. The projected wins assume the teams will each play the full season at the same performance level as they have exhibited so far; early on, that may be unlikely, but the farther into the season it gets, the more likely that assumption is to be true. (Each team name is a click-on link to that team's detailed performance page here; the link will open in a new browser window.)

All Teams, by Performance
Team
TOP/TPP Projected
Win Percentage
TOP/TPP Projected
Seasonal Wins
Texas.649105
Philadelphia.610 99
Boston.605 98
NY Yankees.590 96
Tampa Bay.572 93
Detroit.566 92
Milwaukee.566 92
St. Louis.536 87
LA Dodgers.536 87
Arizona.525 85
Cincinnati.517 84
LA Angels.517 84
Atlanta.514 83
San Francisco.512 83
Washington.492 80
Colorado.488 79
Florida.488 79
Kansas City.487 79
Toronto.480 78
NY Mets.476 77
Chicago Sox.472 76
San Diego.465 75
Oakland.463 75
Cleveland.458 74
Chicago Cubs.444 72
Seattle.439 71
Baltimore.404 65
Houston.386 63
Pittsburgh.382 62
Minnesota.352 57

 

Projected Standings

This Table merely sorts the results above by Division. It is not a "prediction" of how the races will end up: it is an assessment of how things would stand now if not for luck (as opposed to performance). It is a "prediction" only to the extent that if all teams continued to play from now till the end of the season at exactly the same level of performance they have exhibited so far, which is unlikely, this is how things would most probably turn out.

(The asterisks * denote the Wild Card teams.)



Projected (not actual) Standings
National League American League
East Central West East Central West
Philadelphia    .610 Milwaukee       .566 LA Dodgers      .536 Boston          .605 Detroit         .566 Texas           .649
Atlanta         .514 * St. Louis     .536 Arizona         .525 * NY Yankees    .590 Kansas City     .487 LA Angels       .517
Washington      .492 Cincinnati      .517 San Francisco   .512 Tampa Bay       .572 Chicago Sox     .472 Oakland         .463
Florida         .488 Chicago Cubs    .444 Colorado        .488 Toronto         .480 Cleveland       .458 Seattle         .439
NY Mets         .476 Houston         .386 San Diego       .465 Baltimore       .404 Minnesota       .352  
  Pittsburgh      .382        

And, for comparison (these may be far off early in the season, but should look closer to the above in late season):

Actual Current Standings
National League American League
East Central West East Central West
Philadelphia    .627 Milwaukee       .590 Arizona         .584 NY Yankees      .602 Detroit         .584 Texas           .590
Atlanta         .553 * St. Louis     .553 San Francisco   .534 * Tampa Bay     .559 Cleveland       .497 LA Angels       .534
Washington      .494 Cincinnati      .491 LA Dodgers      .506 Boston          .559 Chicago Sox     .491 Oakland         .453
NY Mets         .472 Pittsburgh      .447 Colorado        .447 Toronto         .497 Kansas City     .441 Seattle         .416
Florida         .447 Chicago Cubs    .441 San Diego       .435 Baltimore       .422 Minnesota       .385  
  Houston         .348        


 

Full Team Stat Projections

Explanation of Table Headings

(This is just a summary; a much more detailed discussion of this Table and its significance is available.)

The TOP and TPP columns are the team runs scored and allowed, respectively, calculated by the HBH formulae from the actual team stats. The Games-Won columns are calculated from the respective indicated sources--actual runs scored and allowed, and calculated ("TP") runs scored and allowed. The "error" columns show the differences between calculated games-won values (rounded to whole numbers) and the actual team wins total. A minus error means that the team is that many games below expectation, while a positive (unsigned) error means that the team is above expectation by that many games--"expectation" meaning the record that would most often result from scoring and giving up the runs in question (actual or as-calculated).

The final column--"Seasonal"--is the wins-from-calculations deviation in wins pro-rated out to a full 162 games; it is the current "luck rate" of the team. (Keep in mind that as the season wears on the size of these errors will, in almost all cases, steadily diminish as extremes of luck are averaged out.) Each team name is a click-on link to that team's detailed performance page here; the link will open in a new browser window.


Team Performance Stats Table

Team Games
Played
Runs Games Won
Scored Yielded Actual
Wins
Wins Projected From:
TOP Real TPP Real R/OR (Error) TOP/TPP (Error) Seasonal
Arizona161 714 726 679 655 94 88 6 85 9 10
Atlanta161 655 638 637 601 89 85 4 83 6 7
Baltimore161 697 704 845 857 68 66 2 65 3 3
Boston161 881 872 713 733 90 94 -4 97 -7 -7
Chicago Cubs161 686 652 768 747 71 70 1 71 0 -1
Chicago Sox161 662 652 700 703 79 75 4 76 3 3
Cincinnati161 757 735 731 717 79 82 -3 83 -4 -5
Cleveland161 671 700 730 755 80 75 5 74 6 6
Colorado161 748 729 766 771 72 76 -4 79 -7 -7
Detroit161 781 782 684 707 94 88 6 91 3 3
Florida161 685 624 702 699 72 72 0 79 -7 -7
Houston161 644 615 809 788 56 62 -6 62 -6 -7
Kansas City161 755 730 775 761 71 77 -6 78 -7 -8
LA Angels161 671 666 649 630 86 85 1 83 3 3
LA Dodgers160 662 637 616 607 81 84 -3 86 -5 -5
Milwaukee161 737 714 646 635 95 89 6 91 4 4
Minnesota161 594 618 800 804 62 61 1 57 5 5
NY Mets161 742 715 779 742 76 78 -2 77 -1 -1
NY Yankees161 838 860 700 649 97102 -5 95 2 2
Oakland161 627 643 675 679 73 76 -3 75 -2 -2
Philadelphia161 725 709 581 526101103 -2 98 3 3
Pittsburgh161 606 607 768 705 72 69 3 62 10 10
San Diego161 593 584 636 609 70 77 -7 75 -5 -5
Seattle161 569 556 643 673 67 66 1 71 -4 -4
San Francisco161 602 567 588 572 86 80 6 82 4 4
St. Louis161 745 754 693 692 89 87 2 86 3 3
Tampa Bay161 710 699 615 607 90 91 -1 92 -2 -2
Texas161 866 852 641 676 95 98 -3105-10 -9
Toronto161 730 740 760 759 80 78 2 77 3 2
Washington160 650 621 661 642 79 77 2 79 0 0


Table Error Data

These are the for results in the Table shown above. All deviations are per team.

"Error" Type
(calculated vs. actual)
Absolute size
of "Error"
Percentage size
of "Error"
Cumulative "Error"
(+ and - cancel)
Batting Runs, from TOP18.8 runs2.8%10.1 runs
Pitching Runs, from TPP20.4 runs3.1%9.6 runs
Games Won from R/OR3.37 wins---0.1 wins
Games Won from TPP/TOP4.47 wins---0 wins

Expected deviation ("error") sizes go down as the season goes on, but at a declining rate: the expected error drops with the square root of number of games played (four times as many games played gives twice the confidence--that is, half the error). Errors will be fairly large in the early season, but modest mid-season and small by late season. The size of runs error we should expect about now is roughly 19.7 runs, which you can compare with the actuals above.






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