Halos record vs over .500, under .500 teams

[Angel Oracle]

26-32 vs over .500 teams

37-11 vs under .500 teams

For a change, they are destroying the bad teams.

But that record vs. over .500 teams had better improve, if they are to do ANYTHING in October!

[Stradling]

Take out April's totals and let me know what their record is against better teams

[Brandon]

I kind of want them to be under .500 so you flip your shit come playoff time.

[Glen]

Do you hibernate when the team isn't going through a mild slump?

[AngelsFanSince86]

Take out April's totals and let me know what their record is against better teams

 

20-21 without April.  Just sayin.  Although they have been much better as the season has gone on.  The Orioles are just apparently their kryptonite.

[Docwaukee]

Is there some sort of correlation between teams that have bad records vs. good teams in the regular season and losing in the post season?  

[Glen]

Is there some sort of correlation between teams that have bad records vs. good teams in the regular season and losing in the post season?

If the team is managed by Scioscia, yes.

[mancini79]

Team has the 2nd best record in baseball.

 

You're tying too hard AO.

[Troll Daddy]

AO is the ultimate alarmist ... bless his little heart.

[nando714]

Team has the 2nd best record in baseball.

You're tying too hard AO.

For the time being

Don't know if we'll hold it or surpass Oakland.

Time will tell

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

For those interested, here's the complete AL standings with head to head breakdown.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/2014-standings.shtml

[Oz27]

You'd have to be quite a large homer to say there's no concern in our record against good teams, but one thing I take comfort from is it's not like we totally shit the bed like the 2010-12 Angels used to do on trips to Arlington (and other difficult teams). This mediocre post-ASB run has certainly had its problems, but the six losses have been by a combined nine runs. And I think it's hard to compare the team in its current state to what it was earlier in the season, when Calhoun was out, we didn't have all these quality bullpen arms and we had Frieri and Ibanez stinking up the joint and getting regular playing time. I'm willing to give it a bit more time before I start to get really worried about it.

[ten ocho recon scout]

In order to make it fair, youd have to look up the records for all the other contending teams.

Ibsee the dodgers getting a lot of praise on here, going back to last year. The latest sweep aside, they still have had a bad year against the giants. And theyve fluffed their record agsinst the west, especially arizona. But to the causal observer, im assuming a lot of people dont have the same concerns about them as they do us.

[tdawg87]

They haven't done great against good teams, but most teams don't. Rule of thumb is to play about .500 ball against the tougher opponents while crushing the weaker ones.

This stretch of games they are 6-6. That's not bad at all.

[Stradling]

And every game has been close, most during this stretch are one run losses and our best player is slumping, we will turn this around.

[Inside Pitch]

So the have played their last 9 games vs. playoff caliber teams resulting in playoff caliber games with a 4-5 record following back to back one run losses.   At the same time the A's have gone 5-4 in their last 9 vs. teams a combined 42 games below .500.  Naturally that means that the won't make the playoffs much less catch the A's... 

[Stradling]

Yep. Any chance we would be 4-5 if Trout wasn't slumping?

[Angel Oracle]

So I took a look at the 2002 schedule, and saw that the only teams over .500 that we played were Oakland, Seattle, Skanks, Red Sox, Twins, Raviners, and St. Louis, with the ChiSox being at .500.

 

Against the over .500 teams and the ChiSox in 2002, the Halos were just 38-42, and against the under .500 group, they were 61-21.

Plus, they started off just 2-11 against the over .500 group.

 

So like 2002, this 2014 team has totally cleaned up on the bad teams and progressively gotten better against the good teams (19-19 after May 7, after starting off just 7-13). 

 

Points are well taken from everyone.

Edited July 31, 2014 by Angel Oracle

[laagamer]

We won't be playing .500 ball against the A's & Tigers much longer. 

[Angel Oracle]

At least we wouldn't be facing the Tigers until October.

Those ten A's games remaining on the other hand, are beyond huge.  

Just need to continue to clean up on the under .500 teams, starting with the Red Sox on August 8.

Edited July 31, 2014 by Angel Oracle

[Second Base]

The Angels don't need to beat any of these teams until the playoffs.  As long as they can maintain at least a .500 record moving forward, they should make the playoffs and have a home Wild Card game. 

[arch stanton]

We've played a ton of one run and extra inning games against the good teams. Our record could easily be much better or much worse against them. Going forward I think we'll play them even better and get a few more wins because we have the advantages of having the best player, equal or better bullpen, and Matt "the ace slayer" Shoemaker.

[AngelsFanSince86]

At least we wouldn't be facing the Tigers until October.

Those ten A's games remaining on the other hand, are beyond huge.  

Just need to continue to clean up on the under .500 teams, starting with the Red Sox on August 8.

 

 

Yeah that is one good thing about the trades that happened today.  We will play the Red Sox with their vastly depleted rotation and the Rays without Price.  And no Tigers for the rest of the regular season.

[Stradling]

We've played a ton of one run and extra inning games against the good teams. Our record could easily be much better or much worse against them. Going forward I think we'll play them even better and get a few more wins because we have the advantages of having the best player, equal or better bullpen, and Matt "the ace slayer" Shoemaker.

I also think all these close games battle test a team for the playoffs.

[red321]

Here's something else to get your mind around...the Angels have not won a game vs. the Orioles on a Tuesday this year. I'm not kidding you,you can look it up. What the hell is Scioscia doing on those Tuesdays? If the Halos play the Orioles on a Tuesday in the playoffs....we are ****ed. But on the plus side...they are 1-1 vs. Oakland on Tuesdays, so maybe they are ok.

Edited August 1, 2014 by red321