Robert's Rankings
Professional Baseball 2004
Introduction
Coll. Men's Basketball
Coll. Women's Basketball
Coll. Football
Pro Basketball
Pro Football
Pro Baseball
Pro Hockey
2002 Season
2003 Season
Number of Teams: 30
Number of Games: 2452
Number of Upsets: 1036 (42.3%)
Grouping Factor: 0.168762
Empirical Probability of Future Upsets
Chance of Upset
50%
35%
25%
15%
10%
5%
2%
Quality Factor Difference
0
0.852
1.512
2.388
3.024
4.05
5.36
Rank
Name
Record
Strength of Schedule
Quality Factor
1 Day Earlier
Last Week
1
Boston
108 - 69
9
1.70013
1
2
2
NY Yankees
104 - 67
3
1.26979
4
7
3
Houston
96 - 78
21
1.26236
3
3
4
St. Louis
113 - 64
17
1.23112
2
1
5
Baltimore
80 - 83
6
1.2302
5
8
6
Oakland
93 - 69
8
1.18596
9
9
7
Atlanta
96 - 72
28
1.17047
6
4
8
San Francisco
89 - 73
30
1.16609
7
5
9
Minnesota
88 - 78
19
1.16208
10
11
10
Chi Cubs
89 - 73
23
1.15159
8
6
11
Anaheim
92 - 73
5
1.14174
11
12
12
Texas
88 - 74
7
1.07862
12
15
13
Los Angeles
97 - 69
25
1.01979
13
10
14
Philadelphia
84 - 79
26
0.995186
14
13
15
Seattle
64 - 98
4
0.990131
16
19
16
Cleveland
81 - 81
14
0.983836
17
18
17
Florida
86 - 77
29
0.960656
15
14
18
Chi White Sox
84 - 78
12
0.958581
18
20
19
Toronto
67 - 94
2
0.943477
19
22
20
San Diego
84 - 78
27
0.89699
20
16
21
Pittsburgh
73 - 88
16
0.875465
21
17
22
Detroit
74 - 88
11
0.847519
23
25
23
Cincinnati
76 - 86
15
0.829211
22
21
24
Colorado
69 - 93
22
0.774134
24
23
25
NY Mets
74 - 88
20
0.772373
25
24
26
Tampa Bay
67 - 92
1
0.740047
27
28
27
Montreal
67 - 96
24
0.739834
26
26
28
Kansas City
61 - 101
10
0.675484
29
29
29
Milwaukee
67 - 94
13
0.660558
28
27
30
Arizona
52 - 110
18
0.586575
30
30
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