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


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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


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The Age of Sail Visualized

The Age of Sail Visualized

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Technology Speedup Graph

Technology speedup graph from Andrew Gelman’s Blog

 

Atomic vs recursive

So that’s what an atomic structure means.

R also operates on objects called lists, which are of mode list. These are ordered sequences of objects which individually can be of any mode. lists are known as “recursive” rather than atomic structures since their components can themselves be lists in their own right.

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Some ENAR pictures

Here is a view of the Capitol from just outside of ENAR.

OBEY.

And finally, for @CM_Litchfield, a picture of the Teamester’s headquarters.

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Madness Coefficient and Cinderella Plot updated through the Final Four

Time Series and the Final Four

MDS and the Final Four