This is the best Cubs team most of us have seen in our lifetimes. You’d have to be pretty old to have seen a better Cubs team than the 2016 version. So let’s just say this is the best Cubs team in our lives, but how good are they compared to the rest of the teams? The Cubs 3rd order winning percentage has been quite high all season long. What is 3rd order winning percentage? I bring it up a lot around here and so I thought I’d share the definition from BPro.
3rd Order Winning Percentage: A team’s projected winning percentage, based on underlying statistics and adjusted for quality of opponents.