Power Rankings

[NickF]

just what i needed this week... went 8-0 and brought myself back close to the wildcard... that NL wildcard is looking very packed right now

[Corey]

Off week for Philly last week.  Michael Young is killing me right now!  I'm hoping Rizzo gets called up soon!   

You and me both, I want to see what Rizzo can do!!!

[papps]

Off week for Philly last week.  Michael Young is killing me right now!  I'm hoping Rizzo gets called up soon!   

[speedster18431]

17)  Colorado Rockies  (29-51) - Just can't seem to stay healthy. Pedroia playing hurt, Tulo is hurt. WTF is up with Upton. Sometimes you just have one of those years.

I really think its just not my year this team has only scored 4.79 pts tthis week.

[Dan Wood]

1)  Los Angeles Dodgers  (68-12) - Surprisingly only has 2 guys over 20 ppg (come back kids Uggla and Dunn), still racking up wins
2)  St. Louis Cardinals  (65-15) - Josh Willingham for MVP. If Paul isn't the GM of the year, I don't know who is.
3)  Philadelphia Phillies  (65-15) - Anthony Rizzo is lurking.
4)  Boston Red Sox  (65-15) - Tough week as his bats just didn't hit. Danny Murphy seemed to go 0 for the week.
5)  New York Yankees  (45-35) - Joey Bats is heating up.
6)  Texas Rangers  (57-23) - Might not even be the best team in his division.
7)  Cleveland Indians  (53-27) - Panda comes back from DL, craft services costs go up.
8)  Oakland Athletics  (47-33) - Kicking butt and taking names, despite having their pitching coach throw some innings last week.
9)  Chicago White Sox  (55-25) - Leads their division on the backs of Ajax and Trumbo. Added Kershaw to solidify the rotation.
10)  Kansas City Royals  (50-30) - Has a lot of underperforming bats at the moment and Wright is coming back to earth.
11)  Houston Astros  (44-36) - As I have said all along, they are an excellent team.
12)  Cincinnati Reds  (48-32) - That sucking noise you hear is the Reds. Wally Backman had a closed door meeting with the team prior to this week. The pitching staff has been singled out as being the weak link.
13)  Pittsburgh Pirates  (42-38) - This team will need Youk if it wants that WC spot.
14)  Washington Nationals  (45-35) - The Melk man is lactating wins in the nation's capital.
15)  Atlanta Braves  (41-39) - Almost went 0-8 last week if it wasn't for the suck squad from Cincy. An early favorite for the WC is currently reeling.
16)  Milwaukee Brewers  (37-43) - Utley on rehab, Hosmer starting to hit, ALbert has come around...we all knew this was coming.
17)  Colorado Rockies  (29-51) - Just can't seem to stay healthy. Pedroia playing hurt, Tulo is hurt. WTF is up with Upton. Sometimes you just have one of those years.
18)  Tampa Bay Rays  (38-42) - Mike has made some excellent moves to make him my pick for AL East champ in 2013.
19)  New York Mets  (34-46) - Improving, but 2013 may be the season the Mets become winners.
20)  Chicago Cubs  (29-51) - Underperformance and tough division have hurt this team. But he does have Mike Trout, so he has that going for him, which is good.
21)  Seattle Mariners  (43-37) - No team has run hotter and colder throughout the year.
22)  Minnesota Twins  (30-50) - Started setting up for next season.
23)  San Francisco Giants  (30-50) - The missing piece to this team has been the Linc...I have to say though, Ernesto has made some savvy signings.
24)  Toronto Blue Jays  (30-50) - Just an unfortunate year all around for Daniel.
25)  Detroit Tigers  (28-52) - Has got some interesting pieces coming up through the minors.
26)  Arizona Diamondbacks  (27-53) - Goldy had a hot week, got out of Young's contract. Interesting to see this team's direction in 2013.
27)  Miami Marlins  (21-59) - Might be time to start selling some of the vets...they did have some very good weeks.
28)  San Diego Padres  (15-65) - Loving the bid on Soler, exactly the kind of moves that need to be made in order to get this franchise out of the basement.
29)  Los Angeles Angels  (18-62) - 8-0 week, has a decent pitching staff lined up for 2013, going to need some bats. 
30)  Baltimore Orioles  (1-79) - Still can't believe the Bundy deal.

Pretty much the same ranks as last week. At this point now teams are what they are. Some will get hot (Oakland), some will go cold (Cincy, Atlanta), but there will probably be very few drastic movements in the power rankings, unless the Rockies, Brewers, Cubs, Mets, Rays get crazy hot and or healthy.

[papps]

I got smoked by Houston this week!!  They had a great week!

[Bigbenxl786]

Who needs big money guys? Top 8 team and I am not paying any guy more than 8 mil.

[h4cheng]

More neat stats (you can tell I am a stathead):

- To succeed, is it better to spend a lot of $ on a few players or spread out the cash? To measure this we can look at the variance of the players' salary on a given team (I took out the 500k and all negative cash exchanges).
- The team with the largest spread in salary is (Pujols / Berkman / Utley has a significantly higher salary than the other players). The team with the lowest spread in salary is (highest paid player is Cruz at 6.5M).
- Out of the top 10 teams with the largest salary spread, 7 are over .500, including dividing leaders , , and
- Out of the top 10 teams with the smallest salary spread, only 2 (, ) are over .500.
- Here is the list, ranked from the largest to smallest salary spread:

MIL
LAD
NYY
BOS
NYM
CLE
CHC
PHI
CIN
PIT
OAK
DET
HOU
TB
MIN
SF
KC
WAS
LAA
STL
BAL
MIA
SEA
ARZ
ATL
COL
TOR
CHW
SD
TEX

[h4cheng]

Some interesting stats:
- Teams are spending a total of 3.191B on salaries this year, 39.8% is spent on pitching the rest is spent on hitting. This split is not too far off from the  47% (batting) / 17% (defence) / 36% (pitching) split that the scoring system is targeting.
- Splits of some of the top teams as per the latest power ranking:
79% hitting, 21% pitching
49% hitting, 51% pitching
43% hitting, 57% pitching
61% hitting, 39% pitching
56% hitting, 44% pitching
71% hitting, 29% pitching
70% hitting, 30% pitching
55% hitting, 45% pitching
59% hitting, 41% pitching
63% hitting, 37% pitching
- It's interesting that two of the top teams are spending significantly more on pitching. 5 out of the top 10 teams are spending more than the league average on pitching. It is not necessary to allocate all resources to hitting to succeed in this league.
- The biggest hitting-pitching split belongs to (85% hitting, 15% pitching)

[papps]

The Phillies are having their worst week all season so far