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The document analyzes MLB teams based on their performance across four metrics: OPS, ERA, stolen bases, and fielding percentage. It ranks each team in these categories and sums the ranks to calculate an overall "Super-Score", with lower scores indicating more well-rounded teams. It then compares the Super-Score rankings to payroll rankings. While expensive teams often place high in regular season standings, the analysis finds that more balanced teams with lower payrolls are those still playing for championships late in the postseason. Money ensures regular season success but does not guarantee chemistry or postseason titles.

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The document analyzes MLB teams based on their performance across four metrics: OPS, ERA, stolen bases, and fielding percentage. It ranks each team in these categories and sums the ranks to calculate an overall "Super-Score", with lower scores indicating more well-rounded teams. It then compares the Super-Score rankings to payroll rankings. While expensive teams often place high in regular season standings, the analysis finds that more balanced teams with lower payrolls are those still playing for championships late in the postseason. Money ensures regular season success but does not guarantee chemistry or postseason titles.

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Jack McMullen

Major League Baseball is run by money. Its apparent every single year, from
November 1st to March 31st. But, contrary to what the baseball world has come to believe,
money doesnt create team chemistry and win championships. I was on a search for the
most well-rounded teams in baseball, as normal power rankings tend to not look at wellroundedness, but rather the overall strength of the club. Sure, a team can put up a 3.30
ERA, but what if that team cant put up any runs? Sure, that team will win a good amount
of games, but in order to be the best of the best, that ball club must be firing on all
cylinders in all aspects of the game.
Thats where the new formula comes in. I began to rank ball clubs in four separate
aspects from 1-30 in 2014:
OPS
ERA
Stolen Bases
Fielding Percentage
Once I have all these separate rankings for all 30 teams, I summed the ranks together to
create one Super-Score. Teams with the lowest Super-Scores earn the top spots in the
power ranking, while teams with the highest scores are the worst all-around teams in
baseball. Once the Super-Scores were calculated, I put it side by side with the payroll
rankings in Major League Baseball.
Below are the rankings in each category for each team in baseball, followed by
the master chart:
AL East:
Boston
OPS: .684 22
ERA: 4.01 21
Fielding %: .985 4
SB: 63 21
Super-Score: 68
New York
OPS: .687 20
ERA: 3.75 16

Fielding %: .984 5

SB: 112 4
Super-Score: 45
Toronto
OPS: .736 4
ERA: 4.00 20
Fielding %: .985 4

SB: 78 19
Super-Score: 47

Baltimore
OPS: .734 6
ERA: 3.43 7
Fielding %: .986 3

SB: 44 25
Super-Score: 41
Tampa Bay
OPS: .684 23
ERA: 3.56 11
Fielding %: .985 4

SB: 63 21
Super-Score: 59
AL Central:
Chicago
OPS: .708 11
ERA: 4.29 24
Fielding %: .982

SB: 85 16
Super-Score: 58
Kansas City
OPS: .690 17
ERA: 3.51 10
Fielding %: .983

SB: 153 1
Super-Score: 34
Detroit
OPS: .757 2
ERA: 4.01 21
Fielding %: .983

SB: 106 6
Super-Score: 35
Cleveland
OPS: .706 12
ERA: 3.56 12
Fielding %: .981
SB: 104 8
Super-Score: 40
Minnesota
OPS: .713 9
ERA: 4.57 26

Fielding %: .984 5
SB: 99 11
Super-Score: 51

AL West:
Los Angeles
OPS: .728 7
ERA: 3.58 13
Fielding %: .986
SB: 81 18
Super-Score: 41
Seattle
OPS: .676 25
ERA: 3.17 2
Fielding %: .986
SB: 96 12
Super-Score: 42
Oakland
OPS: .700 13
ERA: 3.22 3
Fielding %: .982
SB: 83 17

Super-Score: 40
Houston
OPS: .692 16
ERA: 4.11 22
Fielding %: .983
SB: 122 3
Super-Score: 47
Texas
OPS: .689 18
ERA: 4.49 25
Fielding %: .982
SB: 105 7
Super-Score: 57
NL East:
New York
OPS: .673 26
ERA: 3.49 8

Fielding %: .983
SB: 101 10
Super-Score: 50
Washington
OPS: .714 8
ERA: 3.03 1
Fielding %: .984
SB: 101 10
Super-Score: 24
Atlanta
OPS: .665 28
ERA: 3.38 5
Fielding %: .986
SB: 95 13
Super-Score: 49
Miami
OPS: .694 15
ERA: 3.78 17
Fielding %: .984
SB: 58 22
Super-Score: 59
Philadelphia
OPS: .665 27
ERA: 3.79 18
Fielding %: .987
SB: 109 5
Super-Score: 52

NL Central:
Chicago
OPS: .684 21
ERA: 3.91 19
Fielding %: .983 6
SB: 65 20
Super-Score: 66
Milwaukee
OPS: .708 10
ERA: 3.67 15
Fielding %: .984 5
SB: 102 9
Super-Score: 39

St Louis
OPS: .689 18
ERA: 3.50 9
Fielding %: .985 4
SB: 57 23
Super-Score: 54
Pittsburgh
OPS: .734 5
ERA: 3.47 8
Fielding %: .983 6
SB: 104 8
Super-Score: 27
Cincinnati
OPS: .661 29
ERA: 3.59 14
Fielding %: .988 1
SB: 122 3
Super-Score: 47
NL West:
Los Angeles
OPS: .738 3
ERA: 3.40 6
Fielding %: .983 6
SB: 138 2
Super-Score: 17
San Diego
OPS: .634 30
ERA: 3.27 4
Fielding %: .983 6
SB: 91 14
Super-Score: 54
San Francisco
OPS: .699 14
ERA: 3.50 9
Fielding %: .984 5
SB: 56 24
Super-Score: 52
Arizona
OPS: .678 24

ERA: 4.26 23
Fielding %: .983 6
SB: 86 15
Super-Score: 68
Colorado
OPS: .772 1
ERA: 4.84 27
Fielding %: .983 6
SB: 85 16
Super-Score: 50

Final Chart:
Team

Team SuperScore

Team

1. LAD
2. WSH
3. PIT
4. KC
5. DET
6. MIL
7. OAK
8. CLE
9. LAA
10. BAL
11. SEA
12. NYY
13. TOR
14. CIN
15. HOU
16. ATL
17. COL
18. NYM
19. MIN
20. SFG
21. PHI

17
24
27
34
35
39
40
40
41
41
42
45
47
47
47
49
50
50
51
52
52

1. LAD
2. NYY
3. PHI
4. BOS
5. DET
6. LAA
7. SFG
8. TEX
9. WSH
10. TOR
11. ARI
12. CIN
13. STL
14. ATL
15. BAL
16. MIL
17. COL
18. SEA
19. KC
20. CHW
21. SD

Payroll (per
sportingcharts.com)
$235,215,219
$203,812,506
$180,052,723
$162,817,411
$162,228,527
$155,692,000
$154,185,878
$136,036,172
$134,704,437
$132,628,700
$112,688,666
$112,390,772
$111,020,360
$110,897,341
$107,406,623
$103,844,806
$95,832,071
$92,081,943
$92,034,345
$91,159,254
$90,094,196

22. STL
23. SD
24. TEX
25. CHW
26. TB
27. MIA
28. CHC
29. BOS
30. ARI

54
54
57
58
59
59
66
68
68

22. NYM
23. CHC
24. MIN
25. OAK
26. CLE
27. PIT
28. TB
29. MIA
30. HOU

$89,051,758
$89,007,857
$85,776,500
$83,401,400
$82,534,800
$78,111,667
$77,062,891
$47,565,400
$44,544,174

Verdict: Money means wins, but it doesnt mean well-rounded ball


clubs. While the Dodgers were the overwhelming champions of both
aspects, where were they in late October? Nowhere to be found. The
Goliaths of the finance game see themselves at the top of the
standings, but the honest payroll teams with big hearts and young
depth are the ones that find themselves playing baseball for rings.

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