Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Best Teams In OPS Differential All Made The Playoffs

Here are all the teams ranked from highest to lowest. The top 8 teams are all in the playoffs right now and the top 11 teams all made it to at least one kind of playoff game. HOPS is the OPS  a team's batter achieved and POPS is what their pitchers allowed.


TEAM HOPS POPS DIFF
Detroit 0.780 0.681 0.099
Boston 0.795 0.710 0.085
Oakland 0.745 0.678 0.067
Pittsburgh 0.709 0.650 0.059
St. Louis 0.733 0.680 0.053
Atlanta 0.723 0.671 0.052
LA Dodgers 0.722 0.670 0.052
Tampa Bay 0.737 0.686 0.051
Cincinnati 0.718 0.683 0.035
Texas 0.735 0.701 0.034
Cleveland 0.737 0.708 0.029
Washington 0.710 0.683 0.027
LA Angels 0.743 0.736 0.007
Baltimore 0.744 0.749 -0.005
Kansas City 0.694 0.699 -0.005
Milwaukee 0.708 0.713 -0.005
San Francisco 0.702 0.710 -0.008
Arizona 0.715 0.731 -0.016
Toronto 0.729 0.750 -0.021
Colorado 0.741 0.763 -0.022
Chicago Cubs 0.693 0.718 -0.025
NY Mets 0.672 0.709 -0.037
San Diego 0.686 0.725 -0.039
Seattle 0.695 0.736 -0.041
NY Yankees 0.683 0.731 -0.048
Chicago Sox 0.680 0.730 -0.050
Philadelphia 0.690 0.746 -0.056
Miami 0.627 0.703 -0.076
Minnesota 0.692 0.770 -0.078
Houston 0.674 0.792 -0.118
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2 comments:

  1. DavidOctober 3, 2013 at 5:59 PM

    I mean, that makes a pretty great deal of sense. OPS is strongly correlated to runs - and thus so are their differentials. And run differential is strongly correlated to win %. So this basically says "the teams with the best records made the playoffs." Of course, it is probably unusual that thwe top 8 are the final 8, but I wonder if it's even that unusual.

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  2. Cyril MorongOctober 3, 2013 at 6:18 PM

    That's something I should look into. I guess that it does not work out so nicely every year. Generally OPS differential is highly correlated with winning pct, especially if it is over several years. See

    http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2005/9/12/01529/1532

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