Maris by the Numbers, After Seven Seasons
After seven seasons, each team’s total wins are as follows:
Team | Div | Tot W | W% |
Hartford | ALN | 734 | 0.647 |
Rochester | NLN | 660 | 0.582 |
Wichita | NLW | 645 | 0.569 |
Buffalo | ALN | 639 | 0.563 |
Los Angeles | NLW | 638 | 0.563 |
Chicago | ALN | 638 | 0.563 |
Cheyenne | ALW | 626 | 0.552 |
Nashville | NLS | 624 | 0.550 |
Jackson | ALS | 624 | 0.550 |
Cleveland | NLE | 621 | 0.548 |
Salem | ALW | 620 | 0.547 |
Durham | ALS | 615 | 0.542 |
Louisville | NLS | 601 | 0.530 |
Charlotte | NLE | 600 | 0.529 |
Arizona | NLW | 598 | 0.527 |
Cincinnati | NLN | 595 | 0.525 |
Scranton | NLE | 592 | 0.522 |
Monterrey | ALS | 575 | 0.507 |
Atlanta | ALS | 557 | 0.491 |
Boston | ALE | 554 | 0.489 |
Kansas City | ALW | 543 | 0.479 |
Norfolk | NLE | 541 | 0.477 |
Helena | ALW | 526 | 0.464 |
Santa Fe | NLS | 511 | 0.451 |
Vancouver | NLN | 487 | 0.429 |
Tampa Bay | NLS | 476 | 0.420 |
Trenton | ALE | 475 | 0.419 |
Madison | ALN | 469 | 0.414 |
San Diego | NLW | 467 | 0.412 |
Burlington | ALE | 445 | 0.392 |
New York | NLN | 439 | 0.387 |
New Britain | ALE | 409 | 0.361 |
Clearly, “Hartford” has been the dominant team. They’ve extended their lead over the rest of the World by 74 games. The AL North has been the dominant division, with three of the top six teams. The AL East has been the weakest division, with three of the bottom six teams and with no team above .500 overall.
The average wins per season are as follows:
Team | Div | AvgW |
Hartford | ALN | 104.86 |
Rochester | NLN | 94.29 |
Wichita | NLW | 92.14 |
Buffalo | ALN | 91.29 |
Los Angeles | NLW | 91.14 |
Chicago | ALN | 91.14 |
Cheyenne | ALW | 89.43 |
Nashville | NLS | 89.14 |
Jackson | ALS | 89.14 |
Cleveland | NLE | 88.71 |
Salem | ALW | 88.57 |
Durham | ALS | 87.86 |
Louisville | NLS | 85.86 |
Charlotte | NLE | 85.71 |
Arizona | NLW | 85.43 |
Cincinnati | NLN | 85.00 |
Scranton | NLE | 84.57 |
Monterrey | ALS | 82.14 |
Atlanta | ALS | 79.57 |
Boston | ALE | 79.14 |
Kansas City | ALW | 77.57 |
Norfolk | NLE | 77.29 |
Helena | ALW | 75.14 |
Santa Fe | NLS | 73.00 |
Vancouver | NLN | 69.57 |
Tampa Bay | NLS | 68.00 |
Trenton | ALE | 67.86 |
Madison | ALN | 67.00 |
San Diego | NLW | 66.71 |
Burlington | ALE | 63.57 |
New York | NLN | 62.71 |
New Britain | ALE | 58.43 |
(105 wins per season is stupid, and makes me want to punch wolfman in the face.)
Season-by-season results are as follows:
Team | Div | S1W | S2W | S3W | S4W | S5W | S6W | S7W |
Hartford | ALN | 92 | 101 | 101 | 98 | 115 | 110 | 117 |
Rochester | NLN | 94 | 97 | 93 | 85 | 98 | 99 | 94 |
Wichita | NLW | 93 | 100 | 99 | 106 | 92 | 80 | 75 |
Buffalo | ALN | 101 | 93 | 91 | 102 | 91 | 65 | 96 |
Los Angeles | NLW | 98 | 93 | 86 | 88 | 87 | 92 | 94 |
Chicago | ALN | 97 | 80 | 92 | 95 | 97 | 86 | 91 |
Cheyenne | ALW | 79 | 98 | 102 | 107 | 79 | 85 | 76 |
Nashville | NLS | 82 | 81 | 85 | 83 | 100 | 95 | 98 |
Jackson | ALS | 100 | 84 | 85 | 89 | 87 | 86 | 93 |
Cleveland | NLE | 81 | 86 | 89 | 93 | 100 | 95 | 77 |
Salem | ALW | 93 | 82 | 94 | 97 | 89 | 85 | 80 |
Durham | ALS | 102 | 85 | 98 | 88 | 83 | 82 | 77 |
Louisville | NLS | 83 | 91 | 90 | 96 | 74 | 94 | 73 |
Charlotte | NLE | 96 | 79 | 80 | 84 | 76 | 88 | 97 |
Arizona | NLW | 66 | 96 | 69 | 91 | 90 | 93 | 93 |
Cincinnati | NLN | 85 | 73 | 82 | 88 | 76 | 89 | 102 |
Scranton | NLE | 79 | 82 | 92 | 85 | 87 | 79 | 88 |
Monterrey | ALS | 89 | 80 | 68 | 83 | 90 | 88 | 77 |
Atlanta | ALS | 77 | 76 | 86 | 70 | 82 | 85 | 81 |
Boston | ALE | 89 | 82 | 64 | 74 | 66 | 89 | 90 |
Kansas City | ALW | 82 | 76 | 78 | 91 | 76 | 82 | 58 |
Norfolk | NLE | 93 | 92 | 88 | 73 | 70 | 59 | 66 |
Helena | ALW | 84 | 82 | 81 | 64 | 86 | 59 | 70 |
Santa Fe | NLS | 84 | 86 | 74 | 70 | 56 | 69 | 72 |
Vancouver | NLN | 83 | 93 | 76 | 73 | 62 | 59 | 41 |
Tampa Bay | NLS | 58 | 47 | 72 | 59 | 77 | 87 | 76 |
Trenton | ALE | 51 | 82 | 75 | 63 | 73 | 68 | 63 |
Madison | ALN | 31 | 81 | 52 | 57 | 70 | 87 | 91 |
San Diego | NLW | 53 | 83 | 42 | 61 | 74 | 64 | 90 |
Burlington | ALE | 65 | 22 | 62 | 67 | 68 | 83 | 78 |
New York | NLN | 80 | 26 | 79 | 78 | 64 | 53 | 59 |
New Britain | ALE | 52 | 83 | 67 | 34 | 57 | 57 | 59 |
[Gold cells indicate WS champions. Silver cells indicate league champions. Bold indicates division champions.]
Hartford, Rochester, and Buffalo are the only teams with two league championships. Hartford is the only team with two WS championships.
Durham S2 had the fewest wins for a WS champion, while Hartford S7 had the most wins without a WS championship.
Wichita has the most total wins for franchise without a WS championship, while Cincinnati has the fewest total wins for a franchise with a WS championship. Nashville has the most total wins for a franchise without a league championship. Chicago has the most total wins for a franchise without a division championship.
Hartford S7 had the best regular season, with 117 wins, while Burlington had the worst regular season, with 22 wins. (Of course, that was the season polo actually tried to lose games, so I’m not sure it counts.) The next worst regular season was New York S2, with 26 wins.
Hartford, Rochester, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Jackson have never had a losing season. (But rosehof came close multiple times with the “cards.”) New York is the only team without a winning season.
The number of division championships are as follows:
Team | Div | DC |
Hartford | ALN | 5 |
Rochester | NLN | 5 |
Wichita | NLW | 4 |
Salem | ALW | 4 |
Boston | ALE | 4 |
Cheyenne | ALW | 3 |
Nashville | NLS | 3 |
Cleveland | NLE | 3 |
Durham | ALS | 3 |
Louisville | NLS | 3 |
Buffalo | ALN | 2 |
Los Angeles | NLW | 2 |
Jackson | ALS | 2 |
Charlotte | NLE | 2 |
Cincinnati | NLN | 2 |
Monterrey | ALS | 2 |
Trenton | ALE | 2 |
Arizona | NLW | 1 |
Scranton | NLE | 1 |
Norfolk | NLE | 1 |
Santa Fe | NLS | 1 |
New Britain | ALE | 1 |
Chicago | ALN | 0 |
Atlanta | ALS | 0 |
Kansas City | ALW | 0 |
Helena | ALW | 0 |
Vancouver | NLN | 0 |
Tampa Bay | NLS | 0 |
Madison | ALN | 0 |
San Diego | NLW | 0 |
Burlington | ALE | 0 |
New York | NLN | 0 |
(The only thing this really shows is how worthless the AL West is, given that Salem has won it four times.)
The standard deviation for each team’s season-by-season results are as follows:
Team | Div | StdDev |
Los Angeles | NLW | 4.34 |
Rochester | NLN | 4.68 |
Scranton | NLE | 4.86 |
Atlanta | ALS | 5.62 |
Jackson | ALS | 5.64 |
Chicago | ALN | 6.26 |
Salem | ALW | 6.45 |
Monterrey | ALS | 7.90 |
Cleveland | NLE | 8.06 |
Nashville | NLS | 8.19 |
Charlotte | NLE | 8.30 |
Durham | ALS | 9.01 |
Hartford | ALN | 9.30 |
Louisville | NLS | 9.37 |
Cincinnati | NLN | 9.56 |
Santa Fe | NLS | 10.05 |
Kansas City | ALW | 10.06 |
Trenton | ALE | 10.07 |
Helena | ALW | 10.71 |
Wichita | NLW | 11.13 |
Boston | ALE | 11.17 |
Buffalo | ALN | 12.42 |
Arizona | NLW | 12.42 |
Cheyenne | ALW | 12.63 |
Norfolk | NLE | 13.61 |
Tampa Bay | NLS | 13.81 |
New Britain | ALE | 14.83 |
San Diego | NLW | 16.83 |
Vancouver | NLN | 17.16 |
New York | NLN | 19.39 |
Burlington | ALE | 19.79 |
Madison | ALN | 21.61 |
This just means that Los Angeles’s results are the least widely dispersed, which makes them the most consistent team. They’ve had 98, 93, 86, 88, 87, 92 and 94 wins, which is very, very consistent. (I’m assuming crb wakes up at 6:00 a.m. every morning, eats exactly one bowl of raisin bran and drinks four ounces of orange juice, showers for exactly seven minutes, arrives at work at 7:00 a.m., takes a break at exactly 10:30, eats lunch from 12:00 until 12:45, takes another break at 3:15, leaves at 5:00, eats a chicken breast and exactly twelve green beans and drinks one O’Douls for dinner, watches two reruns of the Golden Girls, and goes to bed at precisely 9:45. My message is this: loosen up, crb. Either go full-polo on us and lose 120 games or sprout hair and fangs and win 120. I’m sick of your moderate excellence. Sick of it. At least I had the decency to lose 87 games last season.)
Madison is the least consistent team, with 31, 81, 52, 57, 70, 87, and 91 wins. (This basically means you should never allow yourself to be alone with mikejuggalo. He might try to make out with you, or he might try to stab you with an ice pick.)
The divisions look like this:
Division | Wins | WP | StdDev |
ALN | 2480 | 0.547 | 110.3 |
ALS | 2371 | 0.523 | 32.0 |
NLE | 2354 | 0.519 | 33.9 |
NLW | 2348 | 0.518 | 82.6 |
ALW | 2315 | 0.510 | 51.6 |
NLS | 2212 | 0.488 | 70.8 |
NLN | 2181 | 0.481 | 100.5 |
ALE | 1883 | 0.415 | 61.7 |
The AL North is the winningest division, but has the widest spread among the teams. The AL East is the losingest division. The AL South has the tightest spread among the teams.