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MLB power rankings

Every team rated by who they beat and by how much. A rating of +5 means the team has played about five runs better than an average opponent; 0 is dead-average. Strength of schedule is built in — beating good teams counts for more.

Scope: last 12 months of completed games · latest result 2026-09-04 · recomputed daily
#TeamRating RecordForAgainst
1 Milwaukee Brewers +0.9 101-70 5.1 4.0
2 Los Angeles Dodgers +0.9 102-66-2 5.3 4.2
3 Atlanta Braves +0.9 104-64-2 4.8 3.8
4 New York Yankees +0.7 99-72 4.6 3.8
5 Chicago Cubs +0.5 93-79 5.4 4.7
6 Detroit Tigers +0.3 73-88-6 4.5 4.2
7 Philadelphia Phillies +0.2 89-78-2 4.5 4.4
8 Pittsburgh Pirates +0.2 86-85 4.9 4.7
9 Boston Red Sox +0.2 89-81 4.6 4.3
10 Chicago White Sox +0.2 88-83-1 4.8 4.5
11 Tampa Bay Rays +0.1 94-75-1 4.4 4.3
12 San Diego Padres +0.1 88-82-1 4.6 4.5
13 St. Louis Cardinals +0.1 87-79-2 4.5 4.4
14 Washington Nationals +0.0 81-86-3 4.9 4.9
15 Cleveland Guardians +0.0 86-84-1 4.4 4.4
16 Arizona Diamondbacks 0.0 89-82-1 4.7 4.8
17 New York Mets 0.0 75-90-2 4.2 4.3
18 Toronto Blue Jays 0.0 82-85-2 4.2 4.3
19 Miami Marlins -0.1 82-83-3 4.2 4.3
20 Baltimore Orioles -0.1 82-85-3 4.5 4.7
21 Texas Rangers -0.2 88-83 4.4 4.4
22 San Francisco Giants -0.2 77-92-1 4.5 4.6
23 Minnesota Twins -0.3 78-91-1 4.7 5.0
24 Houston Astros -0.3 83-83-3 4.4 4.6
25 Seattle Mariners -0.5 77-93-1 4.2 4.9
26 Kansas City Royals -0.6 72-99-1 4.4 5.1
27 Los Angeles Angels -0.7 70-102-1 4.2 4.8
28 Cincinnati Reds -0.7 81-90 4.5 5.3
29 Colorado Rockies -0.8 69-101-1 5.0 5.9
30 Athletics -1.0 68-102-1 4.7 5.8

How it works: we take every completed game, cap blowout margins so one rout can't own a rating, and solve for the set of ratings where each team's number equals its average margin plus the average rating of the teams it faced. That is the classic Simple Rating System — fully reproducible from public scores, no human votes. Ratings recompute daily as results land.

Get this as data: ?format=csv serves the table with stable columns (rank, team, rating, wins, losses, draws, avg_for, avg_against, games), free to use with credit (CC BY 4.0). Trackers and composites welcome.

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