mlb-elo-advantage

MLB Elo Game Predictions and Playoff Probabilities for 2025-08-27 - @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 over the last 2 years (2.7K games). For transparency, these recommendations have been triggered for 14% of games and have a 24.79% ROI over the last 7 days. ROI is 32.23% over the last 30 days and 0.57% over the last 365.

Date Away Home Away WinP Home WinP Away ML Away Threshold Home ML Home Threshold
2025-08-27 WSN NYY 34.64 65.36 216 +220 -268 -143
2025-08-27 TBD CLE 50.02 49.98 -155 +122 129 +122
2025-08-27 ATL FLA 50.18 49.82 -136 +121 111 +123
2025-08-27 SDP SEA 49.01 50.99 117 +126 -142 +118
2025-08-27 BOS BAL 53.68 46.32 -143 +107 118 +140
2025-08-27 MIN TOR 39.49 60.51 152 +181 -182 -120
2025-08-27 PHI NYM 49.48 50.52 129 +124 -157 +120
2025-08-27 KCR CHW 56.48 43.52 -132 -104 108 +155
2025-08-27 ARI MIL 35.37 64.63 119 +214 -149 -139
2025-08-27 PIT STL 47.76 52.24 149 +132 -183 +112
2025-08-27 ANA TEX 39.21 60.79 129 +183 -158 -121
2025-08-27 COL HOU 31.82 68.18 245 +249 -313 -159
2025-08-27 CIN LAD 41.17 58.83 168 +170 -208 -113
2025-08-27 CHC SFG 53.76 46.24 -131 +106 108 +140
2025-08-27 DET OAK 51.75 48.25 -131 +114 107 +130

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 11312 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 MIL 1581 -4 19 100.00% 96.99% 98.97% 64.42% 43.69% 32.63%
2 LAD 1552 4 5 99.96% 78.82% 82.30% 46.24% 20.13% 12.69%
3 CHC 1543 3 1 99.98% 3.01% 56.02% 20.20% 10.63% 6.27%
4 SDP 1537 0 17 99.20% 21.15% 53.15% 21.84% 9.74% 5.80%
5 PHI 1535 -7 -5 99.83% 97.06% 71.34% 33.19% 11.85% 6.71%
6 NYY 1530 -1 3 85.41% 9.25% 49.79% 25.79% 14.57% 5.67%
7 BOS 1530 8 18 65.51% 2.93% 35.19% 18.14% 9.78% 3.64%
8 TOR 1527 1 0 99.64% 87.73% 93.20% 48.92% 26.28% 9.47%
9 SEA 1524 4 4 96.53% 69.96% 78.47% 42.57% 21.35% 7.42%
10 NYM 1519 12 -8 59.22% 2.94% 23.98% 9.26% 2.78% 1.33%
11 TEX 1516 7 -6 28.12% 2.41% 13.59% 6.35% 3.21% 1.03%
12 KCR 1511 -5 11 42.53% 20.95% 21.98% 9.85% 4.17% 1.24%
13 CIN 1510 -8 2 25.15% 0.00% 8.70% 3.18% 0.79% 0.34%
14 DET 1510 -3 3 85.52% 76.76% 53.48% 24.19% 10.11% 2.87%
15 HOU 1507 -3 -13 83.49% 27.61% 48.92% 21.96% 9.59% 2.40%
16 TBD 1506 7 -4 7.89% 0.10% 3.32% 1.48% 0.65% 0.27%
17 SFG 1497 8 1 14.29% 0.04% 4.76% 1.39% 0.33% 0.13%
18 ARI 1497 1 -10 1.88% 0.00% 0.64% 0.23% 0.05% 0.03%
19 ATL 1493 -2 7 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
20 CLE 1486 -10 -9 4.75% 2.24% 1.82% 0.68% 0.27% 0.06%
21 BAL 1484 -7 2 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
22 OAK 1478 3 22 0.03% 0.00% 0.01% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
23 MIN 1473 -5 -13 0.14% 0.05% 0.06% 0.03% 0.00% 0.00%
24 PIT 1473 8 3 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
25 FLA 1471 -5 -11 0.48% 0.00% 0.14% 0.04% 0.02% 0.00%
26 STL 1469 -7 -24 0.01% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
27 ANA 1460 -4 -3 0.44% 0.02% 0.18% 0.06% 0.03% 0.02%
28 CHW 1446 9 8 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
29 WSN 1440 -4 -13 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
30 COL 1395 -2 -8 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%