Organizational Rankings

Inspired by the second annual MLB Organization Rankings done by Fangraphs, I have decided to calculate my own. Last year famously, Fangraphs took a lot of deserved heat for ranking the Seattle Mariners, the laughing stock of baseball in 2010, as the #6Org. There was much uproar about the validity of a system that could rank them so high. While the 2011 list from Fangraphs is just underway, they have already raised my eyebrows by ranking the Dodgers as the #23Org. So I took it upon myself to see how difficult it would be do come up with a more sensible organizational ranking system. Not only that, but I've made my spreadsheet used to come up with my rankings a public google document.

Of course I don't have the hoards of databases and "expert" writers at my disposal to create such a ranking, but I feel I have done as good of job in the 60 minutes time it took me to slap together this ranking system. Below are the inputs and weightings used.

Methodology
1. Recent success and future forecasted success (winning games, making playoffs). This takes into consideration the number of games the team won over the past three years, along with their expected win total from Vegas for the 2011 season, plus a multiplier for number of times the team has made the playoffs over the past three years.
2. Minor league system (Baseball Prospectus)
3. Market Cap / Value of team (Forbes)
4. $Win efficiency (2011 Expected Wins above replacment per millions in projected payroll). The number of wins above 48 that the team is expected to have in the 2011 season (Vegas over/under) divided by its expected 2011 payroll.

Weights
1. 50%
2. 25%
3. 10%
4. 15%

With that, here is the list...

Team	Recent Success	Minors	Market Cap	Efficiency Rank	Weighted Final Average	Final Rank
PHI	1	8	6	20	6.1	1
TB	4	2	28	6	6.2	2
NYY	2	4	1	29	6.45	3
TEX	6	10	8	4	6.9	4
ATL	8	3	13	10	7.55	5
MIN	5	15	12	14	9.55	6
SF	7	22	7	1	9.85	7
LAA	9	6	9	21	10.05	8
BOS	3	19	2	26	10.35	9
CIN	13	9	23	8	12.25	10
COL	11	14	17	11	12.35	11
LAN	12	18	3	17	13.35	12
STL	10	21	11	16	13.75	13
TOR	20	5	27	9	15.3	14
SD	21	11	19	2	15.45	15
OAK	18	16	29	3	16.35	16
CHA	14	25	10	22	17.55	17
FLA	15	29	24	5	17.9	18
MIL	16	30	22	12	19.5	19
CLE	26	7	25	19	20.1	20
CHN	19	23	4	30	20.15	21
SEA	24	13	15	23	20.2	22
WAS	28	12	16	15	20.85	23
DET	17	27	21	25	21.1	24
KC	29	1	26	27	21.4	25
NYN	22	24	5	28	21.7	26
ARI	27	20	20	13	22.45	27
PIT	30	17	30	7	23.3	28
HOU	23	28	14	24	23.5	29
BAL	25	26	18	18	23.5	29

Sources:
Baseball Prosectus
Forbes
MLB Contracts