Category: Baseball

  • StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of June 26, 2012 at 2pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff St. Louis 1 – 48-29 1 2 25 +114 Boston 2 ↑1 46-33 2 1 6 +76 Detroit 3 ↑3 42-33 3 4 16 +76 Pittsburgh 4 ↑1 47-30 7 3 21 +34…

  • StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of October 4, 2012 at 8:15am.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 – 95-67 6 2 5 +136 Tampa Bay 2 ↑1 90-72 9 4 7 +120 Texas 3 ↓1 93-69 2 5 11 +101 Oakland 4 ↑2 94-68 8 1 24 +99…

  • The big move from last week is Detroit who jumps from a 23.3% to a 55.3% chance to make the playoffs.  Moving in the opposite direction you have the White Sox who lost five game in a row at the end of last week including being swept by the Angels.  This have dropped them from 88.2%,…

  • The big move from last week is Detroit who jumps from a 23.3% to a 55.3% chance to make the playoffs.  Moving in the opposite direction you have the White Sox who lost five game in a row at the end of last week including being swept by the Angels.  This have dropped them from 88.2%,…

  • StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 25, 2012 at 8:15am.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 ↑1 89-64 4 1 5 +107 Texas 2 ↓1 91-62 2 2 11 +119 Tampa Bay 3 ↑3 83-70 11 7 7 +102 Washington 4 ↓1 93-60 1 6 24 +142…

  • StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 18, 2012 at 12:18pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record Projected Record Prob Make Playoffs SOS Run Diff Texas 1 – 87-59 95-67 99.9% 11 +123 NYY 2 – 83-63 91-71 98.0% 5 +97 Washington 3 ↑1 89-57 98-64 99.9% 25 +128 Oakland 4 ↑1 84-62 90-72 88.2%…

  • StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 18, 2012 at 12:18pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff Texas 1 – 87-59 1 1 11 +123 NYY 2 – 83-63 7 3 5 +97 Washington 3 ↑1 89-57 2 5 25 +128 Oakland 4 ↑1 84-62 4 2 8 +80 LA…

  • I just came across this poll question on ESPN about people’s opinions regarding the Yunel Escobar’s suspension, and I couldn’t help but notice that this map (below) look very similar to the 2008 presidential election map.  I suppose you could view the map below as essentially serving as a state by state snap shot of how residents…

  • StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 11, 2012 at 12:18pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff Texas 1 – 83-57 2 1 11 +116 NYY 2 – 79-61 8 3 5 +92 Tampa Bay 3 – 77-63 9 5 7 +78 Washington 4 ↑1 87-54 1 4 25 +132…

  • StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 11, 2012 at 12:18pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record Projected Record Prob of making playoffs SOS Run Diff Texas 1 – 83-57 94-68 99.4% 11 +116 NYY 2 – 79-61 90-72 87.4% 5 +92 Tampa Bay 3 – 77-63 88-74 46.4% 7 +78 Washington 4 ↑1 87-54…