When the Yankees won the title on Wednesday night, their fans said (with barely a straight face), \u201cWhoa, we\u2019ve had to wait almost a DECADE for this.\u201d\u00a0 Meanwhile, every other baseball fan said (with a sour face), \u201cThe Yankees, again?\u201d\u00a0 To truly understand this dynamic, let\u2019s look at some history, and do some math.<\/p>\n
The Yankees have been the Yankees since 1913. \u00a0For the past century, they\u2019ve played in a league that had, on average, about 20 teams in it. \u00a0Thus, they have had a mathematical expectation of winning the title once every 20 years or so. \u00a0If you do the historical math on the Yanks, they SHOULD have won the title 4.8 times, as opposed to the 27 they\u2019ve actually won. \u00a0This gives them a \u201ctitle gluttony factor\u201d (or TGF) of 5.625, meaning they win the championship 5.625 times more often than they statistically should.<\/p>\n
To put that in perspective, consider the Red Sox. \u00a0With a slightly longer history, the Bosox SHOULD have won the thing 5.4 times, and they\u2019ve done it 7 times. \u00a0Giving them a paltry TGF of 1.2, meaning they\u2019ve won it only about as often as they should have.\u00a0 In fact, the only other teams with long histories and a positive TGF are the St. Louis Cardinals (10 titles in 109 years, TGF = 1.83) and the Baltimore Orioles (3 titles in 56 years, TGF = 1.3).<\/p>\n
Moving a team helps.\u00a0 The Dodgers are a greedy bunch, with a TGF of 1.9, but only if you ignore their previous life in Brooklyn. \u00a0Similarly, the San Francisco Giants are at 1.9, the Atlanta Braves are at 1.7, and the Minnesota Twins are at 1.5. \u00a0The Oakland A\u2019s have been extremely greedy, winning 4 titles in only 40 years, a TGF of 2.5.<\/p>\n
Other than these 9 teams, no modern team has won the title as often as they should have.\u00a0 Except for one fabulously successful franchise.\u00a0 Can you guess who?\u00a0 They have won the title only twice.\u00a0 But, since they play against 29 other teams and have only been in the league for only 16 years, they hold a garish TGF of 3.5.\u00a0 Which means the only baseball team which can compete with the Yankees for title greed is\u2026.<\/p>\n
the Florida Marlins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Yankees won the title on Wednesday night, their fans said (with barely a straight face), \u201cWhoa, we\u2019ve had to wait almost a DECADE for this.\u201d\u00a0 Meanwhile, every other baseball fan said (with a sour face), \u201cThe Yankees, again?\u201d\u00a0 To truly understand this dynamic, let\u2019s look at some history,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[93,440,778,888,1019,1077,1246,1378],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-florida-marlins","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-oakland-as","tag-red-sox","tag-san-fransisco-giants","tag-title","tag-yankees"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}