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The 2024 Major League Baseball season just ended and the Chicago White Sox had a historically awful season. But was it as bad as the 1962 New York Mets? Or the 2003 Detroit Tigers? Or the 2023 Oakland A’s? Let’s find out.

I went back to the beginning of the expansion era in 1961 and looked at all the teams that were really bad. The 1962 - 1965 New York Mets have the worst four year stretch in baseball history. The most games they won in that stretch was 53 in 1964. The Houston Astros of 2011 - 2013 rivaled those Mets teams, winning 56 games in 2011 and actually got worse each of the next two seasons. The 1988 Baltimore Orioles started the season 0-18 and finished with a dismal 54-107 record. But that’s not even their worst team. The 2018 Baltimore Orioles went 47-115.

The 2024 regular season has come to a close. The playoffs have started as I’m writing this. I’ve updated my final regular season rankings for the 2024 season.

2024 MLB Rankings

My Week 4 NFL Rankings are out.

Power Ratings
Adjusted Scoring

My week 5 College Football Rankings are out.

FBS Rankings
FCS Rankings
D2 Rankings
D3 Rankings

My Week 3 NFL Rankings are out.

Power Ratings
Adjusted Scoring

My week 4 College Football Rankings are out.

FBS Rankings
FCS Rankings
D2 Rankings
D3 Rankings

Sixty four games have been played. And we’re down to the final two teams. It doesn’t always come down to the two best teams but this year it does. Purdue and UConn have probably been the two best teams all year. UConn is trying to defend it’s title and become the first school since Florida to repeat. Purdue is trying to do what UVA did a few years back: The second number 1 seed to lose in the first round and come back and win the whole thing the next year. This game is also somewhat of a throwback because each team has a really good big man.