Thursday, March 31, 2011

More Fangraphs.com Org Rankings

To see the data in spreadsheet form, click here. You can see how teams changed in versus last years ranking and where they scored in each of the four component categories. Toronto, San Fransisco, Cincinatti, and the White Sox moved up 10 or more places while Milwaukee, Seattle, Cleveland, and Arizona were the big downgrades. I didn't like how Future Talent was compiled and have some reservations about Financial Resources  (perhaps a topic for another post).

Fangraphs.com Organization Rankings -- Star Plots

Fangraphs.com has an annual series of posts where they rank each Major League Baseball organization on the following criteria: Present Talent (30%), Financial Resources (30%), Baseball Operations (25%), and Future Talent (15%). The writers grade each team in each of the categories probably on a scale of 1-100 (I believe; no ranking is below 62 or above 95). I took the rankings for each category and made some star plots.