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December 21, 2007
Yanks' Most & Least Dominant Teams
Playing around today, I decided to come up with list of the Yankees Top 25 “most dominant” and “least dominant” teams – statistically speaking, using the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia. Here are my results with the teams ranked by year:
Yankees Top 25 “Most Dominant” Teams, by year:
YEAR PLACE W L PCT RCAA RSAA 1920 3rd 95 59 0.617 107 72 1921 1st 98 55 0.641 152 84 1923 1st 98 54 0.645 93 62 1927 1st 110 44 0.714 338 117 1934 2nd 94 60 0.610 166 58 1935 2nd 89 60 0.597 127 57 1936 1st 102 51 0.667 287 57 1937 1st 102 52 0.662 181 144 1938 1st 99 53 0.651 76 149 1939 1st 106 45 0.702 289 92 1941 1st 101 53 0.656 150 66 1942 1st 103 51 0.669 168 86 1948 3rd 94 60 0.610 121 68 1952 1st 95 59 0.617 140 54 1953 1st 99 52 0.656 220 52 1954 2nd 103 51 0.669 149 52 1955 1st 96 58 0.623 136 78 1956 1st 97 57 0.630 142 57 1957 1st 98 56 0.636 154 65 1958 1st 92 62 0.597 95 97 1977 1st 100 62 0.617 146 51 1980 1st 103 59 0.636 108 61 1997 2nd 96 66 0.593 134 78 1998 1st 114 48 0.704 168 102 2002 1st 103 58 0.640 143 76 2003 1st 101 61 0.623 142 50
Yankees Top 25 “Least Dominant” Teams, by year:
YEAR PLACE W L PCT RCAA RSAA 1903 4th 72 62 0.537 -6 -22 1905 6th 71 78 0.477 28 -32 1907 5th 70 78 0.473 -68 -21 1908 8th 51 103 0.331 -30 -117 1909 5th 74 77 0.490 5 -27 1910 2nd 88 63 0.583 1 18 1912 8th 50 102 0.329 -97 -83 1913 7th 57 94 0.377 -109 -42 1914 T6th 70 84 0.455 -59 -12 1915 5th 69 83 0.454 -37 -27 1916 4th 80 74 0.519 -10 18 1917 6th 71 82 0.464 -83 26 1918 4th 60 63 0.488 22 -53 1925 7th 69 85 0.448 -29 -27 1965 6th 77 85 0.475 -44 31 1967 9th 72 90 0.444 -48 -31 1968 5th 83 79 0.512 -41 35 1969 5th 80 81 0.497 -30 23 1982 5th 79 83 0.488 13 -14 1987 4th 89 73 0.549 12 -14 1989 5th 74 87 0.460 -10 -64 1990 7th 67 95 0.414 -82 -68 1991 5th 71 91 0.438 -54 -41 1992 T4th 76 86 0.469 -1 -15
As a Yankees fan, are there any surprises here for you? Any team on the lists that you think should not be there? Any team missing from the lists that you think should be there?
Posted by Steve Lombardi at December 21, 2007 10:22 AM
Comments
Holy crap, 338 RCAA? That's like a 1100-run offense today. That 1927 was absolutely amazing.
And I've always thought the 2003 Yankees were the last 'great' or 'feared' Yankee team. Since then, they've still been a top team, but no one's really intimidated anymore. Here's to going back to that with an up and coming young core.
Posted by: Andrew ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.waswatching.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 21, 2007 10:40 AM
These leasts also show us why the Yankees owned the 1930's and 1950's.
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at December 21, 2007 10:47 AM
i was just going to comment on how big of a difference 23 to 27 was beat me to it. I'm also kinda surpried with the 25 team as it had ruth and gehrig on it as well as meusel, i guess it ruth was hurt because he didnt play in all the games, and that was gehrig's rookie season
Posted by: Corey at December 21, 2007 11:03 AM
I think it was Bill James who labeled the 1961 Yankees as one of the most overrated teams in history. And it does not appear in your list of 25 most dominant Yankee teams.
Posted by: Bob R. at December 21, 2007 11:37 AM
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20071219p2a00m0sp017000c.html
i wonder if matsui has some saki and hes such a celebrety nobody said anything
Posted by: Corey at December 21, 2007 11:51 AM
Barring injury and inconvenience, I wouldn't mind getting rear ended by Hideki. I hope he doesn't have any Mattingly-esque neck/back problems as a result.
Hopefully he didn't break any ribs. I wonder if he had a supermodel girlfriend at his side.
Posted by: ChrisXS at December 21, 2007 12:58 PM