Best R.B.I. computer team?

[Brookensrules!]

What's the best team computer vs. computer?  Has anyone done the number crunching on this?  I plan to be betting a buddy on which team will win and need some advice.  Not including all-star teams.

Thanks!

[BeefMaster]

ultimate7 did at least one "watch season", in which he had the computer play a bunch of games in Watch Mode and recorded the results... I'll try to dig up the thread.

[BeefMaster]

Here's the thread

Final standings:

Team  W    L    W/L     R     RA    Dif   R/G     RA/G
Det   26   10   0.722   550   420   130   15.28   11.67
Cal   23   13   0.639   529   435   94    14.69   12.08
NL    23   13   0.639   463   403   60    12.86   11.19
Bos   22   14   0.611   443   401   42    12.31   11.14
AL    21   15   0.583   518   459   59    14.39   12.75
Min   15   21   0.417   426   465   -39   11.83   12.92
NYM   15   21   0.417   405   469   -64   11.25   13.03
SF    13   23   0.361   474   542   -68   13.17   15.06
STL   12   24   0.333   389   477   -88   10.81   13.25
Hou   10   26   0.278   348   474   -126   9.67   13.17

R=Runs
RA=Runs allowed
Dif=Run differential
R/G=Runs per game
RA/G=Runs allowed per game

[Brookensrules!]

WOW.  This is wonderfully detailed.  Thanks for the info.  I thought Detroit was the toughest.  A little shocked by the all-stars rankings.

[BeefMaster]

You should note before putting too much money down that the games are at least somewhat unpredictable - California knocked off Detroit in the World Series of this "league", and even the worst teams won around a third of their games.  You'd have to comb through the game-by-game results to see if there were any trends of a lesser team being especially tough against a better team, although with only 4 games against each team, I don't know how useful that would be.

One thing I just noticed that seems strange to me is how the best teams had so many fewer runs allowed than the worst teams, despite the fact that they don't appear to have any better pitching staffs.  I suppose that comes from the 10-run rule - good teams will pick up more 2-inning 10-0 wins, keeping that number artificially low.

[AlecTrevylan006]

Yeah, lack of substitutions kinda bones Boston in that... too bad