On spring records

I figured that with live baseball starting up again this weekend (!!), now would be a good time to pull out this graph:

   

That's the relationship between spring winning percentage and regular season winning percentage (with data going back to 2003).  It's not very strong.  Yes, some of the best teams had good springs and some of the worst teams had bad springs, but if you look at the overall picture, it means nothing.  But you knew that already.  These teams deviated the most from their spring training winning percentage:

Team	Year	Spring Winning%	Winning%	Difference
Dodgers	2004	.364	.574	.210
Phillies	2004	.323	.531	.208
Red Sox	2006	.328	.531	.203
Rangers	2010	.362	.556	.194
Dodgers	2009	.405	.586	.181
Indians	2010	.732	.426	-.306
Royals	2006	.667	.383	-.284
Marlins	2006	.732	.481	-.251
Mariners	2004	.638	.389	-.249
Brewers	2009	.734	.494	-.240

Data are from ESPN.com.