Category Archives: Sports
MLB Rankings – 5/7/2012
StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of May 7, 2012 at 8am.
| Team | Rank | Change | Record | ESPN | TeamRankings.com |
| Baltimore | 1 | ↑5 | 19-9 | 6 | 1 |
| Texas | 2 | ↓1 | 18-10 | 2 | 2 |
| St. Louis | 3 | ↓1 | 17-11 | 5 | 6 |
| Atlanta | 4 | ↓1 | 18-11 | 7 | 5 |
| Tampa Bay | 5 | ↑3 | 19-10 | 1 | 3 |
| Washington | 6 | ↓1 | 18-10 | 4 | 4 |
| Toronto | 7 | ↑2 | 16-13 | 8 | 7 |
| LA Dodgers | 8 | ↓4 | 18-10 | 3 | 8 |
| NY Yankees | 9 | ↓2 | 15-13 | 9 | 9 |
| Miami | 10 | ↑10 | 14-14 | 22 | 17 |
| Houston | 11 | ↑12 | 13-15 | 23 | 15 |
| Cincinnati | 12 | ↑3 | 14-13 | 12 | 11 |
| Philadelphia | 13 | ↑3 | 14-15 | 14 | 20 |
| Arizona | 14 | ↓1 | 14-15 | 11 | 18 |
| Cleveland | 15 | ↑2 | 15-11 | 13 | 10 |
| San Francisco | 16 | ↓6 | 14-14 | 16 | 21 |
| NY Mets | 17 | ↓5 | 15-13 | 15 | 12 |
| Chicago WSox | 18 | ↓4 | 13-15 | 19 | 14 |
| Detroit | 19 | ↑2 | 14-13 | 10 | 13 |
| Oakland | 20 | ↑2 | 15-14 | 21 | 16 |
| Boston | 21 | ↓10 | 11-16 | 24 | 22 |
| Seattle | 22 | ↓4 | 13-17 | 26 | 19 |
| LA Angels | 23 | ↑3 | 12-17 | 18 | 27 |
| Colorado | 24 | ↓5 | 12-15 | 17 | 25 |
| Pittsburgh | 25 | ↓1 | 12-16 | 25 | 23 |
| Milwaukee | 26 | ↓1 | 12-16 | 20 | 26 |
| Chicago Cubs | 27 | – | 11-17 | 27 | 24 |
| San Diego | 28 | – | 9-20 | 29 | 29 |
| Kansas City | 29 | – | 9-18 | 28 | 28 |
| Minnesota | 30 | – | 7-20 | 30 | 30 |
Past Rankings:
Cheers.
MLB Rankings – 4/30/2012
StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of April 30, 2012 at 8am.
| Team | Rank | Change | Record | ESPN | TeamRankings.com |
| Texas | 1 | – | 16-6 | 1 | 1 |
| St. Louis | 2 | ↑2 | 14-8 | 2 | 5 |
| Atlanta | 3 | – | 14-8 | 7 | 3 |
| LA Dodgers | 4 | ↑1 | 16-6 | 4 | 2 |
| Washington | 5 | ↓3 | 14-8 | 5 | 6 |
| Baltimore | 6 | ↑7 | 14-8 | 12 | 9 |
| NY Yankees | 7 | ↓1 | 12-9 | 6 | 7 |
| Tampa Bay | 8 | ↑3 | 14-8 | 3 | 4 |
| Toronto | 9 | ↓2 | 12-10 | 9 | 14 |
| San Francisco | 10 | ↑5 | 12-10 | 13 | 15 |
| Boston | 11 | ↑16 | 10-11 | 10 | 10 |
| NY Mets | 12 | – | 13-9 | 16 | 11 |
| Arizona | 13 | ↑4 | 11-11 | 15 | 19 |
| Chicago WSox | 14 | ↓6 | 11-11 | 19 | 12 |
| Cincinnati | 15 | ↑9 | 11-11 | 17 | 16 |
| Philadelphia | 16 | ↑2 | 10-12 | 11 | 22 |
| Cleveland | 17 | ↓3 | 11-9 | 14 | 23 |
| Seattle | 18 | ↑4 | 11-12 | 21 | 13 |
| Colorado | 19 | ↓3 | 10-11 | 18 | 18 |
| Miami | 20 | ↓10 | 8-13 | 23 | 25 |
| Detroit | 21 | ↓12 | 11-11 | 8 | 8 |
| Oakland | 22 | ↓2 | 11-12 | 22 | 21 |
| Houston | 23 | ↓4 | 8-14 | 26 | 24 |
| Pittsburgh | 24 | ↑1 | 9-12 | 25 | 17 |
| Milwaukee | 25 | ↓2 | 10-12 | 20 | 20 |
| LA Angels | 26 | ↓5 | 7-15 | 24 | 28 |
| Chicago Cubs | 27 | ↑2 | 8-14 | 28 | 27 |
| San Diego | 28 | ↓2 | 7-16 | 29 | 26 |
| Kansas City | 29 | ↓1 | 6-15 | 27 | 30 |
| Minnesota | 30 | – | 6-15 | 30 | 29 |
Past Rankings:
Cheers.
Imperfect Game: The next start after a perfect game
Last week Phillip Humber became the 21st pitcher to pitch a perfect game in major league baseball. Right now as I write this, he has been ousted from his next start after allowing 9 earned runs in five innings. This got me wondering how other pitchers have performed in their next start after their perfect game. Obviously, thing have to get worse in the next start, but things seem to get much worse. Using baseball-reference.com, I looked up game logs for the next start after the perfect game.
Here are the results (in a google doc).
For the 17 games I could find box scores for, including Humber’s next start, these pitchers have a combined record of 5-8 (originally said 4-9) with 4 no decisions, an ERA of 5.67 and a WHIP of 1.466. That’s certainly not perfect. Terrible might be a better word for it. I guess it’s hard to even be average once you’ve experienced perfection.
Cheers.
Imperfect Game: The next start after a perfect game
Last week Phillip Humber became the 21st pitcher to pitch a perfect game in major league baseball. Right now as I write this, he has been ousted from his next start after allowing 9 earned runs in five innings. This got me wondering how other pitchers have performed in their next start after their perfect game. Obviously, thing have to get worse in the next start, but things seem to get much worse. Using baseball-reference.com, I looked up game logs for the next start after the perfect game.
Here are the results (in a google doc).
For the 17 games I could find box scores for, including Humber’s next start, these pitchers have a combined record of 5-8 (originally said 4-9) with 4 no decisions, an ERA of 5.67 and a WHIP of 1.466. That’s certainly not perfect. Terrible might be a better word for it. I guess it’s hard to even be average once you’ve experienced perfection.
Cheers.
MLB Rankings – 4/23/2012
StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of April 22, 2012 at 9pm.
| Team | Rank | Change | Record | ESPN | TeamRankings.com |
| Texas | 1 | ↑1 | 13-3 | 1 | 1 |
| Washington | 2 | ↑1 | 12-4 | 6 | 6 |
| Atlanta | 3 | ↑8 | 10-6 | 13 | 3 |
| St. Louis | 4 | – | 11-5 | 3 | 8 |
| LA Dodgers | 5 | ↓4 | 12-4 | 5 | 5 |
| NY Yankees | 6 | ↑4 | 9-6 | 4 | 9 |
| Toronto | 7 | ↓1 | 9-6 | 11 | 13 |
| Chicago WSox | 8 | ↑1 | 9-6 | 9 | 4 |
| Detroit | 9 | ↓4 | 10-6 | 2 | 2 |
| Miami | 10 | ↑9 | 7-8 | 21 | 20 |
| Tampa Bay | 11 | ↑13 | 9-7 | 8 | 11 |
| NY Mets | 12 | ↓3 | 8-6 | 10 | 7 |
| Baltimore | 13 | ↓1 | 9-7 | 18 | 12 |
| Cleveland | 14 | ↑3 | 8-6 | 23 | 10 |
| San Francisco | 15 | ↑1 | 7-7 | 14 | 16 |
| Colorado | 16 | ↑3 | 8-7 | 19 | 24 |
| Arizona | 17 | ↓10 | 8-8 | 7 | 21 |
| Philadelphia | 18 | ↓3 | 7-9 | 12 | 17 |
| Houston | 19 | ↓1 | 6-10 | 26 | 22 |
| Oakland | 20 | ↑2 | 8-9 | 24 | 26 |
| LA Angels | 21 | – | 6-10 | 17 | 27 |
| Seattle | 22 | – | 7-10 | 22 | 15 |
| Milwaukee | 23 | ↑4 | 7-9 | 16 | 14 |
| Cincinnati | 24 | ↓1 | 7-9 | 20 | 18 |
| Pittsburgh | 25 | – | 6-9 | 28 | 19 |
| San Diego | 26 | ↑3 | 5-12 | 30 | 29 |
| Boston | 27 | ↓14 | 4-10 | 15 | 23 |
| Kansas City | 28 | ↓2 | 3-12 | 25 | 30 |
| Chicago Cubs | 29 | ↓1 | 4-12 | 27 | 28 |
| Minnesota | 30 | – | 5-11 | 29 | 25 |
Cheers.
MLB Rankings – 4/16/2012
StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of April 16, 2012 at 8am.
| Team | Rank | Change | Record | ESPN | TeamRankings.com |
| LA Dodgers | 1 | ↑1 | 9-1 | 5 | 4 |
| Texas | 2 | ↑1 | 8-2 | 1 | 2 |
| Washington | 3 | ↑1 | 7-3 | 6 | 5 |
| St. Louis | 4 | ↑1 | 7-3 | 3 | 6 |
| Detroit | 5 | ↓4 | 6-3 | 2 | 3 |
| Toronto | 6 | ↑1 | 5-4 | 11 | 11 |
| Arizona | 7 | ↓1 | 6-3 | 7 | 9 |
| NY Mets | 8 | ↑3 | 6-3 | 10 | 7 |
| Chicago WSox | 9 | ↑1 | 5-3 | 9 | 1 |
| NY Yankees | 10 | ↓2 | 5-4 | 4 | 13 |
| Atlanta | 11 | ↑9 | 5-4 | 13 | 12 |
| Baltimore | 12 | ↑1 | 5-4 | 18 | 16 |
| Boston | 13 | ↑18 | 4-5 | 15 | 8 |
| Seattle | 14 | ↑2 | 6-5 | 22 | 14 |
| Philadelphia | 15 | ↓1 | 4-5 | 12 | 19 |
| San Francisco | 16 | ↓2 | 4-5 | 14 | 18 |
| Cleveland | 17 | ↑12 | 4-4 | 23 | 15 |
| Houston | 18 | ↓3 | 4-5 | 26 | 24 |
| Miami | 19 | ↑2 | 4-6 | 21 | 23 |
| Colorado | 20 | ↓1 | 4-5 | 19 | 21 |
| LA Angels | 21 | ↑3 | 3-6 | 17 | 29 |
| Oakland | 22 | – | 4-6 | 24 | 27 |
| Cincinnati | 23 | ↑3 | 4-6 | 20 | 17 |
| Tampa Bay | 24 | ↓15 | 4-5 | 8 | 10 |
| Pittsburgh | 25 | ↓2 | 3-6 | 28 | 22 |
| Kansas City | 26 | ↓14 | 3-6 | 25 | 28 |
| Milwaukee | 27 | ↓10 | 4-6 | 16 | 20 |
| Chicago Cubs | 28 | ↓3 | 3-7 | 27 | 26 |
| San Diego | 29 | ↓2 | 2-8 | 30 | 25 |
| Minnesota | 30 | ↓2 | 2-7 | 29 | 30 |
Cheers.
MLB Rankings – April 13, 2012 (Friday 13th edition)
StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of April (Friday) 13, 2012 at noon.
Some interesting things:
- SITW, ESPN, and TR all have the Tigers number 1 and the Yankees ranked 8.
- My top 10 has all of the same teams in it as TeamRankings.com except for one team: Toronto.
- My top 10 has all of the same teams in it as ESPN except for 2 teams: LA Dodgers and Chicago White Sox.
| Team | Rank | Change | Record | ESPN | TeamRankings.com |
| Detroit | 1 | – | 5-1 | 1 | 1 |
| LA Dodgers | 2 | – | 6-1 | 11 | 3 |
| Texas | 3 | – | 5-2 | 4 | 5 |
| Washington | 4 | – | 5-2 | 9 | 7 |
| St. Louis | 5 | – | 5-2 | 6 | 4 |
| Arizona | 6 | – | 5-1 | 3 | 6 |
| Toronto | 7 | – | 4-2 | 7 | 13 |
| NY Yankees | 8 | – | 3-3 | 8 | 8 |
| Tampa Bay | 9 | – | 4-2 | 2 | 2 |
| Chicago WSox | 10 | – | 3-2 | 22 | 9 |
| NY Mets | 11 | – | 4-2 | 17 | 11 |
| Kansas City | 12 | – | 3-3 | 21 | 18 |
| Baltimore | 13 | – | 3-3 | 20 | 21 |
| Philadelphia | 14 | – | 3-3 | 10 | 14 |
| Houston | 15 | – | 3-3 | 30 | 26 |
| Seattle | 16 | – | 4-4 | 19 | 12 |
| Milwaukee | 17 | – | 4-3 | 12 | 10 |
| San Francisco | 18 | – | 2-4 | 16 | 20 |
| Colorado | 19 | – | 2-4 | 18 | 29 |
| Atlanta | 20 | – | 2-4 | 23 | 24 |
| Miami | 21 | – | 2-5 | 14 | 25 |
| Oakland | 22 | – | 3-4 | 27 | 22 |
| Pittsburgh | 23 | – | 2-4 | 24 | 19 |
| LA Angels | 24 | – | 2-4 | 5 | 28 |
| Chicago Cubs | 25 | – | 2-5 | 28 | 23 |
| Cincinnati | 26 | – | 3-4 | 13 | 16 |
| San Diego | 27 | – | 2-5 | 29 | 15 |
| Minnesota | 28 | – | 2-4 | 26 | 30 |
| Cleveland | 29 | – | 1-4 | 25 | 27 |
| Boston | 30 | – | 1-5 | 15 | 17 |
Cheers.
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