*This
column represents Adjusted Wins, according to the "POTYOS" formula.
Starting
in 2003, each team will play only 45 interleague games; in other
words, 72.2% of their games will be against teams "their own
size," and only 27.8% against the other league. However,
for this season the schedule has not yet been balanced in that
way. The "Pick On Teams Your Own Size" formula
attempts to take this imbalance into account.
For
each team, we take its winning percentage against teams from its own
league and multiply it by .722, and we take its winning percentage
against teams from the other
league and multiply that by .278. Then we add the two results
together to get a weighted winning percentage. Finally,
multiplying by the current number of games played gives an estimate
of the number of wins which that team would have under a balanced
2003-style schedule.