Robert's Rankings
Professional Baseball 2003
Introduction
Coll. Men's Basketball
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Pro Basketball
Pro Football
Pro Baseball
Pro Hockey
2002 Season
Number of Teams: 30
Number of Games: 2362
Number of Upsets: 1002 (42.4%)
Grouping Factor: 0.193069
Empirical Probability of Future Upsets
Chance of Upset
50%
35%
25%
15%
10%
5%
2%
Quality Factor Difference
0
0.995
1.766
2.788
3.53
4.73
6.26
Rank
Name
Record
Strength of Schedule
Quality Factor
Previous
1
NY Yankees
108 - 65
23
1.44528
1
2
Atlanta
99 - 62
14
1.43459
2
3
Florida
99 - 72
4
1.37563
4
4
San Francisco
94 - 64
20
1.32866
3
5
Chi Cubs
89 - 80
12
1.26814
6
6
Boston
96 - 69
15
1.23667
5
7
Oakland
93 - 66
25
1.19541
7
8
Toronto
81 - 73
21
1.13555
8
9
Houston
81 - 73
19
1.11627
9
10
St. Louis
82 - 74
13
1.09241
11
11
Chi White Sox
81 - 73
29
1.06522
10
12
Arizona
82 - 74
18
1.05506
13
13
Los Angeles
81 - 74
16
1.02997
15
14
Philadelphia
81 - 74
3
1.02296
16
15
Seattle
86 - 67
26
1.01453
12
16
Minnesota
88 - 71
30
0.99787
14
17
Montreal
78 - 77
2
0.988896
17
18
Pittsburgh
70 - 85
9
0.908128
18
19
Tampa Bay
62 - 92
7
0.857104
19
20
Anaheim
76 - 80
22
0.848742
20
21
San Diego
60 - 94
10
0.841237
23
22
Kansas City
79 - 78
27
0.831865
21
23
Milwaukee
65 - 90
8
0.808719
24
24
Baltimore
71 - 84
6
0.800236
22
25
NY Mets
64 - 90
1
0.793907
26
26
Colorado
73 - 84
11
0.761934
28
27
Texas
69 - 85
17
0.75896
25
28
Cleveland
66 - 90
28
0.752719
27
29
Cincinnati
69 - 87
5
0.745594
29
30
Detroit
39 - 115
24
0.487744
30
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