The National League's best team isn't in question. Its biggest weakness might surprise you.
I built a weighted model to rank the top five teams in both leagues, and the results are surprising
Every August, the standings start lying to people a little. A team can be sitting pretty on the strength of a soft May and a hot two-week stretch, and the record treats that exactly the same as a team that’s actually built to win in October. Wins are wins. But not all of them come from the same place, and if you’re trying to figure out who’s actually go…
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