Strength Of Schedule
Sky Kalkman at Beyond the Boxscore takes a look at each team's strength of schedule using Baseball Prospectus' and ESPN's calculations. Baseball Prospectus has the Dodgers schedule to date rated as the 2nd easiest, ahead of only the Rangers...
Do you take any stock in this kind of information?
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Brendan Scolari
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Does this take into account the record against us...
because if you take a team like the Rockies, who we have dominated all year (8-1) and take the record against us out, they are almost a 500 team (19-21 i believe). Because done so well, it makes the teams we play look worse.
by Rutgers Dodger fan on Jun 1, 2009 4:27 PM PDT reply actions
i mean i understand that its important to play good teams well, but sometimes there are teams you just can not beat and it may bog down your record and create a stigma that you are not a decent team
by Rutgers Dodger fan on Jun 1, 2009 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions
It doesn't really take that into account.
You can see ESPN’s formulas are based on pythagorean records and BP’s are based on AEQR (Adjusted Equivalent Runs) and AEQRA (Adjusted Equivalent Runs Allowed). I’m not really sure how you would go about adjusting them the way you suggest though.
by Brendan Scolari on Jun 1, 2009 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions
You know how ESPN's SoS numbers are calculated?
Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.
Well not exactly
But I thought they were related to this note at the bottom of the ESPN rankings:
“+The basic formula is 25% team winning percentage, 50% opponents’ average winning percentage, and 25% opponents’ opponents’ average winning percentage.”
I see now that that might have been related to something else, but I’m not sure. The note below that is referring to ExW-L and ExWP.
by Brendan Scolari on Jun 1, 2009 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought that note explained their power rankings, but it could be SoS... Hmm.
Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.
Yeah
I’m not really sure, they definitely didn’t do a good job of making it clear.
by Brendan Scolari on Jun 2, 2009 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I've been searching for strength of schedule methodologies, and the RPI SoS approach is exactly what you quoted above, so I'm guessing you're right.
I was confused by the 25% weighting of team winning percentage, but I guess that’s to account for the fact that good teams make their opponents look worse. The second two pieces make sense.
Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.
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