Pythagoraen Records

[NetNerdsRevenge]

I figured this would be fun to try. This is a statistic that takes RS and RA and converts it into a W-L percentage. So, ill do it through the first month of April. The standings below are the way Pythagorean Records tells it.

Im doing this fast so im not going to convert it into actual records. I'll put the records for each team as they stand now in brackets. The first percentage is PR and the percentage in the brackets are their actual percentages.

AL East
New York- .692- (13-10, .565)
Toronto- .547- (12-11, .522)
Boston- .465- (14-11, .560)
Baltimore- .460- (13-13, .500)
Tampa Bay- .390- (11-14, .440)

AL Central
Detroit- .685- (16-9, .640)
Chicago- .670- (17-7, .708)
Cleveland- .570- (13-11, .520)
Minnesota- .332- (9-15, .375)
Kansas City- .288- (5-17, .227)

AL West
Texas- .533- (13-12, .520)
Los Angeles- .483- (12-13, .480)
Seattle- .450- (11-15, .423)
Oakland- .431- (12-12, .500)


NL East
New York- .655- (16-8, .667)
Atlanta- .487- (10-14, .417)
Florida- .436- (6-16, .273)
Washington- .429- (8-17, .320)
Philadelphia- .395- (10-14, .417)

NL Central
St. Louis- .609- (17-8, .680)
Houston- .564- (16-8, .667)
Cincinnati- .563- (17-8, .680)
Chicago- .526- (13-10, .565)
Milwaukee- .523- (14-11, .560)
Pittsburgh- .363- (7-19, .269)

NL West
Los Angeles- .562- (12-13, .480)
Arizona- .524- (12-13, .480)
Colorado- .517- (15-10, .600)
San Francisco- .476- (13-11, .542)
San Diego- .369- (9-15, .375)

Not very interesting because its only April, but this will be fun to follow. Florida, Boston, Oakland, and SF stand out. Florida is way underachieving, and the rest are over achieving. The Mets own the East and the NL Central looks to be the most balanced right now. The NL West is also pretty balanced.

enjoy

[mikeford]

pythagoras can suck it.

[NetNerdsRevenge]

way to contribute.

[Scott Weber]

that's kinda cool.

[aminorthreat55]

that's kinda cool.
I agree.

[ThriftWhore]

At first, I didn't get it, but that is actually pretty cool on second glance.

even though pythaorean can take his theorum and shove it up his ass hahaha.

[NetNerdsRevenge]

incase you’re interested, I used this formula:

(RS)^1.83/((RS)^1.83 + (RA) ^1.83)

the basic has everything raised to the 2, but baseball-reference seems to think 1.83 is more on target, and it was with the teams I checked. Also, If you change RS and RA to RS/G (runs scored per game) and RA/G (same as RS/G) you get an even more accurate formula.

Next ill try to fuck around with Runs Created.

[Scuba Chris]

You can find these standings at espn.com.
Just switch to the expanded view. Or go to Rob Neyer's page.

[NetNerdsRevenge]

are the percentages the same?