FAN Standings 2011
Right around this time last year we looked at how the FAN projections projected the 2010 standings, so now seems to be as good a time as any to take a look at what the 2011 fans have projected the standings to look like based on their individual player projections thus far.
Red Sox 98 Yankees 94 Rays 87 Baltimore 81 Blue Jays 79 Twins 87 Tigers 83 White Sox 79 Cleveland 73 Royals 68 Rangers 85 Angels 79 Athletics 78 Mariners 76 Phillies 90 Marlins 85 Mets 84 Braves 82 Nationals 74 Brewers 84 Cardinals 83 Cubs 82 Reds 80 Pirates 71 Astros 60 Rockies 90 Giants 84 Padres 80 Dodgers 79 Diamondbacks 75
Once again, the fan ballots were a bit optimistic and needed to be scaled back a bit to make the win totals look realistic.
The Braves look obviously low to me (maybe there’s something weird going on there) and the fans really have their hopes up for the Rockies, but I’m pretty pleased with how these came out.
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
I don’t think the Yankees win 94 if they had signed Cliff Lee, #optimism