With the 2016 Major League Baseball regular season in the books, we're set to soak in some awesome playoff baseball here for the next month or so. We know the wild-card matchups and how the divisional series rounds look, schedule-wise, so that means it's time that we can start looking into the probabilities and odds.
Per SportsLine, here are the chances for each playoff team to win the LDS, LCS and World Series (Westgate odds also included):
Team | LDS | LCS ODDS | WIN LCS | WS ODDS | WIN WS |
Chicago Cubs | 69.4% | 1/1, 50.0% | 36.5% | 7/4, 36.4% | 19.0% |
Boston Red Sox | 61.5% | 2/1, 33.3% | 33.4% | 6/1, 14.3% | 15.7% |
Washington Nationals | 54.7% | 3/1, 25.0% | 28.0% | 7/1, 12.5% | 14.8% |
Texas Rangers | 53.9% | 7/4, 36.4% | 30.0% | 5/1, 16.7% | 14.2% |
Los Angeles Dodgers | 45.3% | 3/1, 25.0% | 21.8% | 7/1, 12.5% | 11.8% |
Cleveland Indians | 38.5% | 9/2, 18.2% | 14.7% | 14/1, 6.7% | 7.1% |
Toronto Blue Jays | 28.0% | 9/2, 18.2% | 13.4% | 14/1, 6.7% | 6.7% |
Baltimore Orioles | 18.1% | 8/1, 11.1% | 8.5% | 25/1, 3.8% | 4.1% |
San Francisco Giants | 15.5% | 12/1, 7.7% | 7.3% | 25/, 3.8% | 3.9% |
New York Mets | 15.1% | 10/1, 9.1% | 6.4% | 20/1, 4.8% | 3.0% |