Best baseball team ever

#4
#4
As much as I love the old school Yankees, I think it is just way too hard to compare them to teams with the modern dynamics of baseball. I'd probably have to go with the Big Red Machine.
 
#5
#5
There are a number of teams that merit mention in this discussion. The '27, '39, and '61 Yankees. The '75-'76 Reds. The '64-'68 Cardinals. Finally, the most underrated team in baseball history, the '72-'74 A's.
 
#6
#6
1983 Cleveland Indians, for purely my own reasons. They're the first sports team I watched on a regular basis and the reason why I started caring about sports in the first place.

Mike Hargrove, Julio Franco, Bert Blyleven, Rick Sutcliffe, Pat Corrales (manager)

they spent most of the season in the cellar and finished with 92 losses.
 
#7
#7
Nothing in the past 20 years? What about the 1989 As? Swept the Giants in 4 straight and were pretty solid all around - starting pitching, fielding, hitting...honorable mention?
 
#8
#8
wbarron said:
Nothing in the past 20 years? What about the 1989 As? Swept the Giants in 4 straight and were pretty solid all around - starting pitching, fielding, hitting...honorable mention?
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That team got annihilated by merely decent teams in '88 and '90. People in Oakland consider it heresy when people attempt to put those teams on par with the '70s version.
 
#11
#11
I finally found the book that covers this very subject.

Rob Neyer and Eddie Epstein came out with "Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time" back in 2000.

Their basis for their ranking/naming the best teams was a Standard Deviation formula that compares a team's performance in runs scored and runs allowed compared to their league. VolinArizona would love this.

They highlighted teams from the 1906 Chicago Cubs all the way through to the 1998 New York Yankees. They both listed the 1939 Yankees as the best team of all time.

However, using the SD formula, the best single season teams of all time were:

1. 1998 Yankees
2. 1906 Cubs
3. 1962 Giants
4. 1927 Yankees
5. 1917 Giants

It lists the top fifty teams all time using that method as well as the best two, three, four, and five year runs by teams.

The best five year runs for teams using the SD formula were:

1. 1935-1939 Yankees
2. 1936-1940 Yankees
3. 1969-1973 Orioles
4. 1937-1941 Yankees
5. 1986-1990 Mets (surprising to me)

Also lists the worst teams ever, too.
 
#14
#14
Oh, yes, yes you are! I was just saying it would've been weird for us both to just reply to this thread out of the blue since it was down the board a lil bit. :p
 
#17
#17
tidwell said:
I finally found the book that covers this very subject.

Rob Neyer and Eddie Epstein came out with "Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time" back in 2000.

Their basis for their ranking/naming the best teams was a Standard Deviation formula that compares a team's performance in runs scored and runs allowed compared to their league. VolinArizona would love this.

They highlighted teams from the 1906 Chicago Cubs all the way through to the 1998 New York Yankees. They both listed the 1939 Yankees as the best team of all time.

However, using the SD formula, the best single season teams of all time were:

1. 1998 Yankees
2. 1906 Cubs
3. 1962 Giants
4. 1927 Yankees
5. 1917 Giants

It lists the top fifty teams all time using that method as well as the best two, three, four, and five year runs by teams.

The best five year runs for teams using the SD formula were:

1. 1935-1939 Yankees
2. 1936-1940 Yankees
3. 1969-1973 Orioles
4. 1937-1941 Yankees
5. 1986-1990 Mets (surprising to me)

Also lists the worst teams ever, too.
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Any formula that lists a team that failed to win the World Series as the third greatest of all time is pure statistical gobbledeegook.
 
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