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2010 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
NY Yankees.627102
Atlanta.606 98
Minnesota.582 94
Colorado.581 94
Tampa Bay.581 94
San Diego.574 93
Boston.574 93
Cincinnati.567 92
St. Louis.563 91
Texas.558 90
Toronto.555 90
Philadelphia.546 88
Chicago Sox.544 88
Oakland.531 86
Detroit.525 85
Florida.513 83
LA Dodgers.512 83
San Francisco.499 81
NY Mets.463 75
Washington.460 74
Milwaukee.459 74
Chicago Cubs.442 72
LA Angels.435 70
Arizona.429 70
Seattle.415 67
Cleveland.407 66
Houston.406 66
Kansas City.396 64
Baltimore.365 59
Pittsburgh.297 48

 

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
Atlanta         .606 Cincinnati      .567 Colorado        .581 NY Yankees      .627 Minnesota       .582 Texas           .558
Philadelphia    .546 St. Louis       .563 * San Diego     .574 * Tampa Bay     .581 Chicago Sox     .544 Oakland         .531
Florida         .513 Milwaukee       .459 LA Dodgers      .512 Boston          .574 Detroit         .525 LA Angels       .435
NY Mets         .463 Chicago Cubs    .442 San Francisco   .499 Toronto         .555 Cleveland       .407 Seattle         .415
Washington      .460 Houston         .406 Arizona         .429 Baltimore       .365 Kansas City     .396  
  Pittsburgh      .297        

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
Atlanta         .586 Cincinnati      .586 San Diego       .576 NY Yankees      .624 Minnesota       .579 Texas           .564
* Philadelphia  .564 St. Louis       .527 San Francisco   .552 * Tampa Bay     .617 Chicago Sox     .549 Oakland         .492
Florida         .508 Milwaukee       .466 Colorado        .523 Boston          .564 Detroit         .489 LA Angels       .485
NY Mets         .489 Houston         .466 LA Dodgers      .507 Toronto         .519 Kansas City     .421 Seattle         .391
Washington      .425 Chicago Cubs    .425 Arizona         .410 Baltimore       .368 Cleveland       .398  
  Pittsburgh      .331        


 

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
Arizona134 624 618 719 718 55 57 -2 58 -3 -4
Atlanta133 632 637 511 505 78 82 -4 81 -3 -3
Baltimore133 530 493 696 677 49 46 3 48 1 1
Boston133 693 669 597 604 75 73 2 76 -1 -2
Chicago Cubs134 588 582 660 667 57 58 -1 59 -2 -3
Chicago Sox133 614 636 562 559 73 75 -2 72 1 1
Cincinnati133 670 669 586 572 78 77 1 75 3 3
Cleveland133 547 535 659 651 53 53 0 54 -1 -1
Colorado132 634 610 539 572 69 70 -1 77 -8 -9
Detroit133 626 593 596 608 65 65 0 70 -5 -6
Florida132 591 604 576 578 67 69 -2 68 -1 -1
Houston133 490 500 592 600 62 54 8 54 8 10
Kansas City133 570 545 702 702 56 50 6 53 3 4
LA Angels134 554 584 631 610 65 64 1 58 7 9
LA Dodgers134 571 579 557 575 68 67 1 69 -1 -1
Milwaukee133 661 629 717 710 62 58 4 61 1 2
Minnesota133 638 635 541 532 77 78 -1 77 0 0
NY Mets133 543 529 585 529 65 67 -2 62 3 4
NY Yankees133 714 721 553 545 83 85 -2 83 0 -1
Oakland132 540 534 508 513 65 69 -4 70 -5 -6
Philadelphia133 608 610 555 534 75 75 0 73 2 3
Pittsburgh133 486 460 733 723 44 37 7 40 4 6
San Diego132 560 576 483 467 76 80 -4 76 0 0
Seattle133 465 431 551 569 52 48 4 55 -3 -4
San Francisco134 581 593 582 524 74 75 -1 67 7 8
St. Louis131 598 595 527 509 69 76 -7 74 -5 -6
Tampa Bay133 636 659 541 517 82 83 -1 77 5 6
Texas133 646 646 575 559 75 76 -1 74 1 1
Toronto133 624 620 559 585 69 70 -1 74 -5 -6
Washington134 573 550 621 628 57 58 -1 62 -5 -5


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 TOP15.4 runs2.7%5.5 runs
Pitching Runs, from TPP15.3 runs2.7%5.7 runs
Games Won from R/OR2.47 wins---0 wins
Games Won from TPP/TOP3.13 wins----0.07 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 18.2 runs, which you can compare with the actuals above.






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