mlb-elo-advantage

MLB Elo Game Predictions and Playoff Probabilities for 2025-07-01 - @grdavis

Below are predictions for today's MLB games using an ELO rating methodology. Check out the full mlb-elo-advantage repository on github to see methodology and more.

The thresholds indicate at what odds the model thinks there is value in betting on a team. These thresholds were selected via backtesting since the start of the 2023 season. For transparency, these recommendations have been triggered for 14% of games and have a 2.61% ROI over the last 7 days. ROI is -4.98% over the last 30 days and -2.96% over the last 365.

Date Away Home Away WinP Home WinP Away ML Away Threshold Home ML Home Threshold
2025-07-01 NYY TOR 53.52 46.48 -165 +109 135 +141
2025-07-01 SDP PHI 45.3 54.7 134 +147 -164 +105
2025-07-01 MIN FLA 51.2 48.8 -156 +119 127 +130
2025-07-01 STL PIT 51.84 48.16 140 +116 -171 +133
2025-07-01 DET WSN 57.41 42.59 -156 -105 128 +163
2025-07-01 OAK TBD 35.81 64.19 137 +213 -167 -134
2025-07-01 CIN BOS 47.78 52.22 -103 +134 -118 +114
2025-07-01 MIL NYM 50.9 49.1 101 +120 -123 +128
2025-07-01 ANA ATL 41.55 58.45 162 +170 -200 -109
2025-07-01 CLE CHC 39.86 60.14 156 +181 -191 -116
2025-07-01 BAL TEX 45.55 54.45 152 +146 -187 +106
2025-07-01 HOU COL 65.13 34.87 -158 -139 129 +221
2025-07-01 SFG ARI 46.42 53.58 112 +141 -137 +109
2025-07-01 KCR SEA 44.43 55.57 118 +152 -144 +102
2025-07-01 CHW LAD 28.34 71.66 271 +295 -351 -178

Team Elo Ratings

This table summarizes each team's Elo rating and their chances of making it to various stages of the postseason based on 4299 simulations of the rest of the regular season and playoffs

Team Elo Rating 7-Day Change 30-Day Change Playoffs Win Division Reach Div. Rd. Reach CS Reach WS Win WS
1 LAD 1565 12 2 99.72% 97.30% 95.58% 61.20% 37.45% 24.38%
2 CHC 1547 29 -1 97.05% 68.39% 79.32% 43.43% 20.82% 11.96%
3 NYY 1545 16 -12 95.70% 65.88% 77.25% 44.99% 26.45% 12.68%
4 MIL 1544 16 10 87.51% 27.17% 57.78% 28.45% 13.19% 7.28%
5 PHI 1535 17 10 95.00% 83.79% 69.57% 32.12% 14.24% 7.26%
6 HOU 1532 6 9 96.72% 81.86% 78.72% 41.78% 20.24% 8.42%
7 DET 1532 19 -11 98.88% 96.05% 89.90% 49.76% 25.33% 11.26%
8 TBD 1528 22 9 83.48% 25.26% 53.22% 24.52% 11.96% 4.88%
9 SDP 1520 -16 -7 49.17% 1.54% 21.63% 8.28% 3.51% 1.95%
10 NYM 1519 -8 -21 54.34% 15.70% 26.52% 10.33% 4.40% 1.98%
11 STL 1518 19 -2 49.20% 4.21% 22.52% 8.00% 3.02% 1.23%
12 ARI 1515 -13 1 30.96% 0.67% 12.75% 4.12% 1.70% 0.79%
13 SEA 1514 -8 1 65.76% 14.45% 34.50% 14.70% 6.82% 2.54%
14 ATL 1510 -17 -8 3.86% 0.51% 1.54% 0.49% 0.23% 0.09%
15 SFG 1508 5 -11 22.98% 0.49% 9.03% 2.63% 1.07% 0.49%
16 CIN 1506 11 7 9.98% 0.23% 3.72% 0.95% 0.37% 0.09%
17 BOS 1503 5 7 14.63% 0.95% 6.16% 2.26% 0.95% 0.54%
18 TOR 1503 12 2 52.24% 7.89% 24.26% 9.12% 3.93% 1.23%
19 TEX 1502 7 -1 26.38% 3.14% 10.54% 4.26% 1.47% 0.44%
20 KCR 1494 -13 -12 19.91% 1.05% 8.16% 2.74% 0.93% 0.19%
21 CLE 1493 -18 -15 23.68% 2.05% 9.03% 3.42% 1.19% 0.21%
22 MIN 1491 -3 -19 13.93% 0.86% 5.35% 1.56% 0.47% 0.07%
23 BAL 1489 -23 22 1.63% 0.02% 0.70% 0.16% 0.05% 0.02%
24 PIT 1487 4 20 0.09% 0.00% 0.02% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
25 ANA 1469 14 11 7.02% 0.56% 2.21% 0.74% 0.23% 0.02%
26 FLA 1464 -5 12 0.14% 0.00% 0.02% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
27 WSN 1462 -15 -17 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
28 OAK 1444 -23 5 0.02% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
29 CHW 1422 -6 4 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
30 COL 1406 -47 7 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%