Thursday, September 20, 2012

HBT: Best division in baseball? It's ... AL West!

It seems like the majority of people generally accept that the AL East is the best and/or toughest division in baseball, and rightfully so in most seasons. Not this year, however, as the combined division standings show:

                 W       L       W%
 AL West        322     268     .546
 AL East        378     357     .514
 NL East        380     359     .514
 NL West        363     374     .493
 NL Central     422     464     .476
 AL Central     347     390     .471

Not only does the AL West have by far the best record of any division, it has three teams with 80-plus wins already despite only having four teams, period. Texas leads the league with 87 wins, Oakland ranks second with 84 wins, and third-place Los Angeles has the same number of wins (81) as first-place Chicago does over in the AL Central. As a division the AL West has a .555 winning percentage against the other AL teams and a .611 winning percentage against NL teams.

It?s pretty amazing that the NL Central avoids having the worst combined record considering the Astros are 48-100 and a full 10 games worse than any other team in baseball. Having a total of six teams certainly helps dilute the Astros? impact, but mostly it?s a testament to just how underwhelming the AL Central has been ? again. As a division the AL Central has a .449 winning percentage against the other AL teams and they went just .500 against NL teams despite the other two AL divisions getting fat off interleague play.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/19/which-divisions-are-the-best-and-worst-in-baseball/related/

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