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Texas Rangers |
I'm fond of this graph, even if it's a little busy. There are three parts to it: Runs Scored, Wins, and Runs Allowed. The Runs Allowed are graphed as negative values, so the best numbers are the highest ones on the graph, just as with the Runs Scored. In between these sets of lines are dashed lines showing the number of wins in each 10 game span, and they are graphed on the right hand axis.
In an average 10 game span, a team would score 45 runs, yield 45 runs, and win 5 games. Last year the Angels scored 80 runs in a ten game span, this year the Rangers have done it once. As a rule, a variation of 20 runs from average is a pretty big one - meaning that 25-65 is the range that holds almost every total. Note that the A's are just not giving up many runs.
Oh, and the right-most measurement is not always complete. It includes only 7 games for Anaheim, and 8 for the other teams, in this graph. Measuring any period less than 10 games is really not comparable to the others at all. You never know when Seattle will give up 13 runs in five games, and then give up 14 in one.
Another thing that you can see is that Texas doesn't have the dominating offense that one would suspect. They've only led their division once in the first 40 games, and may lead in the 5th segment. It's also clear that Texas gives up a lot more runs, on the whole, than the other teams. They're working on that.
Comments:
50 games - The Rangers actually played big league ball for ten games. Their pitching was good enough to put them near Anaheim and Seattle in runs allowed, they led the division in runs scored for the second time in 5 10-game segments, and they won the most games for the first time.