Misery Index
because losing breeds misery
about
Category: MLB
a repository for posts about MLB teams and their championship droughts
-
The Giants are the last MLB team that could rightfully call itself a dynasty, winning 3 World Series from 2010-2014, the first of which ended a near 60 year title drought. Unfortunately, while they haven’t won the pennant since 2014, they also have only 1 playoff run since then too, coming in 2021. Their last…
-
The A’s have a long and rich history, starting in Philadelphia, moving to Kansas City for a couple decades, and finally moving to Oakland for 50 years. Currently they are homeless in an official sense as they pulled up stakes in the Bay area to play in a AAA stadium in Sacramento. Ownership has said…
-
After a lengthy conversation with my mathematical advisor, it was determined that negative scores are less than ideal. Also there needs to be a way to track fanbase optimism in regards to team improvement or fall-off based on year over year improvement. To those ends, I am tweaking the formula in the following ways. The…
-
There’s a lot to iron out regarding the twelve playoff teams and the various playoff matchups. In the AL, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the Seattle Mariners have the top two seeds respectfully, with first round byes. The Cleveland Guardians host the Detroit Tigers to see who will play Seattle, and the New York Yankees…
-
The Yankees have too many championships in the past to truly be miserable anytime soon. 27 World Series wins is more than double the total of the St. Louis Cardinals, who have the second most at 11, and that’s also more than 19 teams combined have. That said, they haven’t won in 15 years, so…
