Showing posts with label MLB Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MLB Review. Show all posts

Saturday, October 5, 2013

MLB Review for 2013

Well, I am back from my month long hiatus.  I possibly should have made it longer, but so long as I'm fine with being sporadic with when I post stuff and it's not too big of a time drain, then I think that I can blog occasionally.



Credit to Operation Sports for my predicted standings for the MLB season on the right and credit to ESPN for the final regular season standings on the left.  

NL East (Predicted -7) actual -14  and overall miss average +/- per team in division (7)

Atlanta
Atlanta was fairly dominant at home, finishing with the best home record at 56-25.  +9

Miami 
On the bright side they ended the season with a no-hitter, on the downside they did reach 100 losses.  -2

New York

The Mets did finish in third place, but that doesn't mean a lot in the NL East.  +4

Philadelphia
Philly was disappointing again, I might need to pass on them next year.  -13

Washington
Some regression kept the Nats out of the playoffs.  -7

NL Central (+2)   +16  (6.4)

Chicago
While it was not a 100 loss season, it was basically another lost season for the Cubs. -4

Cincinnati
Cincinnati's prediction was the only prediction to be right on.  The Red's run differential had them as a much better team than the Pirates.  0

Milwaukee
A poor team at home and on the road.  -4

Pittsburgh
Not only a winning season for the Pirates, but a playoff-caliber team.  +17

St. Louis
Somehow the Cardinals keep churning out wins.  The Cards had the most impressive point differential in the Major Leagues.  +7

NL West (+6) -6  (2.8, extremely decent)
Arizona
Roster movement resulted in .500 play, which is better than the results that some teams get.  -1

Colorado
Better year than some expected, but still a poor team overall.  -2

Los Angeles
At least this LA team decided to go on a nice run in the second half of the season.  The Dodgers were certainly helped by Yasiel Puig's emergence as a superstar type player.  -2

San Diego
Slight improvement from last season, but still a fairly bad team.  +1

San Francisco

The defending WS Champs lost a lot of ground and were 10 games below .500.  -8


AL East (+15) +27 (8.8)

Baltimore
Regression occurred to a certain extent, but not quite as much as I expected.  +5

Boston
While I had Boston at around .500, which was a better record than what some 'experts' thought, I don't know if anyone saw the Red Sox emerging as the best team in the Major Leagues, I know I did not see that coming.  +18

New York
The Mets suffered a bit from injuries, but managed to be somewhat relevant to the playoff race.  -2


Tampa Bay
Year after year the Rasy somehow get it done.  +5

Toronto
While injuries were a bit of a factor, they do not provide a very good excuse as to why Toronto remaining at the bottom of the AL East.  -14

AL Central (-9) actual -5 (10.4, very bad)
Cleveland
Cleveland overachieved and nearly ended up catching the Tigers for the division crown.  +19

Detroit

The defending AL champions struggled a little against a subpar division.  +8

Kansas City
While the Royal's predicted record was certainly within the margin of error, the division didn't end up being as weak as I hoped it would be and hence the Royals were kept out of the playoffs yet again.  But, they did make some progress this year and it was their best season in more than two decades. (1989 to be more precise.)  +1

Minnesota
The Twinkies didn't do very much either at home or on the road.  -7

White Sox
The White Sox nearly lost 100 games.  -17

AL West (-7) -18 (7.4)
Houston
Stompings were abundant and the Astros weren't all that competitive in the AL.  -1

Los Angeles
The second time wasn't the charm, the Angels disappointed again.  -17

Oakland
The A's were only two games away from leading the league in wins.  They were a very decent team with a low payroll.  The Tampa Bay Rays -- The West Coast Version, or vice versa..  +11

Seattle
The Mariners were still a poor hitting team.  -6

Texas
They might not have won the division, but the Rangers did still at least make the playoff before the playoffs.  +2

Just based off of my predictions it appears that the NL was again very static, while there was some more variance in the AL.  Average miss in the NL was 5.4, average miss in the AL was 8.9.  Overall average miss was 7.1 games.  A fairly large improvement (proportionally) from a year ago, which was 9.5, but I don't really think that this year saw as many surprise teams as last season.  This season the main surprising team was mostly just the Red Sox.  Last season there were probably at least the O's, A's, and Marlins who were surprising teams.  

Saturday, December 29, 2012

MLB 2012 Review


MLB Standings - Updated: Oct 31, 2012
AL EASTWLGB
New York Yankees9666
Boston Red Sox9567
Toronto Blue Jays8379
Tampa Bay Rays8280
Baltimore Orioles6399
AL CENTRALWLGB
Kansas City Royals8676
Detroit Tigers8478
Cleveland Indians8181
Minnesota Twins7686
Chicago White Sox7587

Here is my late review of the 2012 MLB season...  I kind of thought I already posted this, but apparently I did not.
The Yankees were within a game of my prediction.  I wanted to believe in Baltimore, but I couldn't pull the trigger.  Plus I had Baltimore in last place and they finished 30 games above where I predicted them to finish, so that was a really bad prediction.   Tampa Bay finished 8 games below my prediction.  Toronto finished 10 games below.  While the Red Sox stunk and finished 26 games below.

Detroit was actually fairly accurate.  While the Royals were my homer pick, I still did actually think they would make some noise this year.  Chicago was a bit better than I thought.  Cleveland didn't do a lot.  Surprising to see Minnesota lose 96 games.

MLB Standings - Updated: Oct 1, 2012
AL WESTWLGB
LA Angels9666
Texas Rangers9072
Seattle Mariners 7389
Oakland A's7290
NL EASTWLGB
Philadelphia Phillies9765
Florida Marlins8973
Atlanta Braves8874
Washington Nationals8082
New York Mets7290




Oakland won 22 games more than I expected and won the division.  Who saw that coming?  Texas was within the margin of error.  The Angels only finished 7 games worse than expected, but they still finished outside of playoff contention.  The Mariners I nailed.

Washington's talent came together a year earlier than expected.  Atlanta was accurate.  Philly suffered some injuries and collapsed in the first half of play.  Nailed the Mets.  Really, really dumb decision by me to pick Miami to win 89 games..



MLB Standings - Updated: Oct 31, 2012
NL CENTRALWLGB
Cincinnati Reds8775
Milwaukee Brewers8577
St. Louis Cardinals8478
Pittsburgh Pirates8181
Chicago Cubs7389
Houston Astros53109
NL WESTWLGB
San Francisco Giants9072
Arizona Diamondbacks8577
LA Dodgers8082
Colorado Rockies7884
San Diego Padres7389



Solid pick with the Reds, but they did finish with 10 more wins then expected.  Accurate win total for the Cards, but they ended up reaching the playoffs.  Brewers were accurate.  As were the Pirates.  I was too favorable on the Cubs.  Houston said goodbye to the NL Central with a 55-107 record, ouch.

The San Fran prediction was accurate for the regular season, but I did not see them winning the World Series.. Dodgers prediction was mostly accurate.  Accurate with both the Diamondbacks and Padres.  The Rockies were a bit disappointing.
Credit for the blue box scores on the left goes to http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings and for the right side red box scores, http://www.operationsports.com/.