Expanding on Yesterday's Post

I wanted to see what would happen if every team had scored their baserunners at both a league average clip and at the same rate the league-leading Colorado Rockies. Since I doubt there's any real way for a team to improve their numbers from year to year, all this is pointless and hypothetical, but it's fun to think about anyway.

First, I want to figure out the number of runs each team would have gained or lost by driving in 30.11% of their baserunners, the league average rate. Then, for fun, we can add these runs to the number the teams actually scored to see how their Pythagorean Winning Percentage and record are affected. I sorted the following table by each team's new Pythagorean Winning Percentage (remember Colorado and San Diego played 163 games). The final column shows how much each team's Pythagorean record changed from that derived from their actual runs scored.

Team	RS	RA	RS Change	Adj. RS	Adj. Pythag. Win %	Adj. Pythag. W-L	Pythag. Win Change
San Diego	741	666	-1	740	.548	89-74	0
Chicago	751	690	-1	751	.539	87-75	0
Colorado	820	758	-40	820	.536	87-76	-4
Atlanta	789	733	-21	789	.534	86-76	-2
New York	789	750	-15	789	.523	85-77	-1
Philadelphia	861	821	-31	861	.522	85-77	-2
Milwaukee	792	776	-9	792	.509	83-79	0
Los Angeles	737	727	2	737	.506	82-80	0
Arizona	721	732	9	721	.493	80-82	1
San Francisco	703	720	20	703	.489	79-83	2
Cincinnati	794	853	11	794	.467	76-86	1
Houston	754	813	31	754	.466	75-87	3
Washington	701	783	28	701	.450	73-89	3
St. Louis	742	829	17	742	.449	73-89	2
Florida	794	891	4	794	.447	72-90	0
Pittsburgh	721	846	-3	721	.427	69-93	-1

In the next table, I want to see what would have happened if every team had knocked in baserunners at the same rate the Rockies did: 31.96%. Since the league runs scored obviously goes up, I decided to distribute the increase in runs scored evenly across all sixteen teams' runs allowed. This perhaps isn't very fair to every team since all teams don't play each other the same number of times but this is already so hypothetical it doesn't matter all that much. :)

Team	RS	RA	RS Change	Adj. RS	Adj. RA	Adj. PythagW%	Adj. PythagW-L	Pythag. Win Change
San Diego	741	666	34	775	703	.544	89-74	0
Chicago	752	690	36	788	727	.537	87-75	0
Colorado	860	758	0	860	795	.536	87-76	-4
Atlanta	810	733	16	826	770	.532	86-76	-2
New York	804	750	22	826	787	.522	85-77	-1
Philadelphia	892	821	8	900	858	.522	85-77	-2
Milwaukee	801	776	25	826	813	.507	82-80	-1
Los Angeles	735	727	39	774	764	.506	82-80	0
Arizona	712	732	43	755	769	.492	80-82	1
San Francisco	683	720	56	739	757	.489	79-83	2
Cincinnati	783	853	48	831	890	.469	76-86	1
Houston	723	813	67	790	850	.467	76-86	4
St. Louis	725	829	54	779	866	.452	73-89	2
Washington	673	783	64	737	820	.451	73-89	3
Florida	790	891	41	831	928	.450	73-89	1
Pittsburgh	724	846	32	756	883	.429	70-92	0