Blakeslee Power Rankings

All right, I've been working on some ratings for a while, and here they are. I'll try to publish these every Monday or Tuesday, depending on when the majority of the series' finish. They are a compilation of runs for and against, record, and a strength of schedule component. Then I figure out what an average team would do in the league, and rate each team's season from 0 to 100. For the nerds out there, it is based on a normal distribution of the teams and where they lie on the curve, so a team 1 standard deviation better than the mean would have a rating of 84.1, 2 standard deviations better would have a rating of 97.7, etc...

For reference:
2003 Detroit Tigers: (43-119) 0.19
2001 Seattle Mariners: (116-46) 99.62

Ratings through games of Sunday, July 27

	Team	Rating	Last Week
1	Boston	93.1	2
2	Chi_Cubs	91.7	1
3	Chi_White_Sox	89.2	5
4	Tampa_Bay	89.1	3
5	LA_Angels	89.1	4
6	NY_Yankees	81.9	11
7	Milwaukee	80.0	7
8	Philadelphia	79.9	6
9	NY_Mets	74.2	12
10	Minnesota	71.7	9
11	Oakland	71.6	8
12	Toronto	67.2	13
13	St_Louis	62.4	10
14	Detroit	59.4	14
15	Arizona	55.2	20
16	LA_Dodgers	52.0	15
17	Atlanta	49.2	17
18	Texas	45.3	18
19	Florida	41.2	19
20	Baltimore	38.6	16
21	Cleveland	30.7	21
22	Cincinnati	26.7	22
23	Houston	25.5	23
24	Colorado	25.3	26
25	Pittsburgh	22.3	25
26	Kansas_City	14.9	24
27	San_Francisco	7.7	27
28	Seattle	4.6	28
29	San_Diego	2.6	30
30	Washington	1.5	29