Looking At All The Yankees Ring Teams
One of the great things about the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia is that you can sort stats for players or teams that were World Champions, Pennant Winners, Made The Post-Season or Missed the Post-Season. And, here are the Yankees World Championship teams, via the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia, ranked by their RCAA and RSAA totals:
RCAA YEAR RCAA 1 Yankees 1927 338 2 Yankees 1939 289 3 Yankees 1936 287 4 Yankees 1932 279 5 Yankees 1928 275 6 Yankees 1953 220 7 Yankees 2009 202 8 Yankees 1937 181 9 Yankees 1947 179 10 Yankees 1999 170 11 Yankees 1961 169 12 Yankees 1998 168 13 Yankees 1962 162 14 Yankees 1941 150 15 Yankees 1951 149 16 Yankees 1977 146 17 Yankees 1956 142 18 Yankees 1952 140 19 Yankees 1943 129 20 Yankees 1950 127 21 Yankees 1958 95 22 Yankees 1923 93 23 Yankees 1949 80 24 Yankees 1938 76 25 Yankees 1978 54 26 Yankees 2000 7 27 Yankees 1996 -4
RSAA YEAR RSAA 1 Yankees 1938 149 2 Yankees 1937 144 3 Yankees 1927 117 4 Yankees 1998 102 5 Yankees 1958 97 6 Yankees 1939 92 7 Yankees 1978 77 8 Yankees 1949 68 9 Yankees 1941 66 10 Yankees 1923 62 11 Yankees 1996 60 T12 Yankees 1956 57 T12 Yankees 1936 57 T14 Yankees 1952 54 T14 Yankees 2000 54 16 Yankees 1953 52 17 Yankees 1977 51 18 Yankees 1961 42 T19 Yankees 1950 40 T19 Yankees 1999 40 21 Yankees 1943 24 22 Yankees 2009 19 23 Yankees 1932 17 T24 Yankees 1947 11 T24 Yankees 1951 11 26 Yankees 1962 -8 27 Yankees 1928 -17
Now, here comes the fun. If you were to add RCAA and RSAA for each team and then divide the team’s RCAA total by that number, it will tell you which of these teams were more dominant on offense or pitching. (The higher the “score” means more hitting, the lower means more pitching and a score around .500 says the team was pretty well balanced between it’s offense and pitching value that season.) Here’s the output of this exercise:
YEAR RCAA RSAA Score 1996 -4 60 -.07 2000 7 54 .11 1938 76 149 .34 1978 54 77 .41 1958 95 97 .49 1949 80 68 .54 1937 181 144 .56 1923 93 62 .60 1998 168 102 .62 1941 150 66 .69 1956 142 57 .71 1952 140 54 .72 1977 146 51 .74 1927 338 117 .74 1939 289 92 .76 1950 127 40 .76 1961 169 42 .80 1953 220 52 .81 1999 170 40 .81 1936 287 57 .83 1943 129 24 .84 2009 202 19 .91 1951 149 11 .93 1947 179 11 .94 1932 279 17 .94 1962 162 -8 1.05 1928 275 -17 1.07
So, the 1928, 1962, 1932, 1947, 1951 and 2009 champs hit their way to the ring. And, the 1996 and 2000 champs depended more on pitching.
Lastly, the 1923, 1958, 1937, 1978 and 1949 champs could beat you both ways – pretty much the same way.
Lastly, the 1958, 1937 and 1949 champs could beat you both ways – pretty much the same way.
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Kind of like the 2010 Yankees
@ Corey Italiano:
Long way away from being able to make that claim.
@ Steve Lombardi:
Kind of
Probably lends more credence to the theory that the playoffs are a crapshoot.