It’s finally here. My MLB season rankings. I’ve added team rankings for the 2020 - 2023 seasons. These rankings are quite basic and nothing like the rankings I use for basketball and football. If I ever decide to use that ranking system, I’ll let you know.
How do these rankings work?
I’ve been using these rankings for several years. It’s real simple. I’ve been a big fan of Bill James since the 1980s. So when I learned about his Pythagorean system for estimating team wins, I was intrigued. These rankings use that system and combine it with the actual performance of each team to come up with a combined score.
My intention is to provide these rankings for each system throughout the history of MLB. I’ll also, on occasion, create some ‘best of’ rankings. Perhaps the top 10 seasons of all-time based on these rankings, the top 10 seasons for each franchise, the top 10 seasons of each decade. Maybe even combine some over a decade to get a rankings by decade. So visit my baseball page and take a look.
I want to give a shout out to Baseball Reference. All my baseball data is coming from their site.