The Best and Worst Baseball Teams of All Time
This is the first published computer study to determine the best and worst baseball teams of all time.
It has been updated through the end of the 2000 season.

NEW!

....2000 World Series Special Release:

Those Were Two Weak Teams in the Subway World Series

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How All 200 Pennant Winners Since 1901 Rank.

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· 1. The 30 best baseball teams of all time (through 2000).

· 2. The 30 worst baseball teams of all time (through 1999).

· 3. The book:

The Best and Worst Baseball Teams of All Time - From the '16 A's to the '27 Yanks to the Present
(1994:SPI Books, New York City).
All about how the Top 30 and Bottom 30 teams of all time were statistically selected.

· 4. News Releases:

Best Teams of All Time Updated
2000 Season
1999 Season
1998 Season
1997 Season
1996 Season
1995 Season

· 5. ....2000 World Series Special Release:

How All 200 Pennant Winners Since 1901 Rank

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1. THE 30 BEST BASEBALL TEAMS OF ALL TIME

(updated 2-15-2001)

1 1927 New York Yankees 94.8
2 1939 New York Yankees 92.1
3 1998 New York Yankees 87
4 1906 Chicago Cubs           86.8
5 1944 St. Louis Cardinals 86
6 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates    85.6
7 1929 Philadelphia Athletics          84.1
8 1995 Cleveland Indians    82.8
9 1954 Cleveland Indians    82.5
10 1936 New York Yankees            82.4

11 1905 New York Giants 81.7
12 1969 Baltimore Orioles 81.4
13 1942 St. Louis Cardinals            80.6
13 1931 Philadelphia Athletics        80.6
15 1937 New York Yankees            80.2
16 1932 New York Yankees            80
16 1910 Philadelphia Athletics        80
16 1912 New York Giants 80
19 1909 Pittsburgh Pirates 78.8
20 1912 Boston Red Sox     78.7

21 1953 New York Yankees            78.6
22 1904 New York Giants 78
22 1942 New York Yankees            78
24 1943 St. Louis Cardinals            77.9
25 1948 Cleveland Indians 75.3
26 1919 Cincinnati Reds      74.3
27 1901 Pittsburgh Pirates 74.2
28 1938 New York Yankees            73.4
29 1911 Philadelphia Athletics        73.1
30 1970 Baltimore Orioles 72.2

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2. THE 30 WORST BASEBALL TEAMS OF ALL TIME

1. 1916 Philadelphia Athletics         8.8
2. 1919 Philadelphia Athletics         10.0
3. 1904 Washington Nationals (later Senators) 10.1
4. 1935 Boston Braves        10.5
5. 1962 New York Mets      10.7
6. 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates 11.0
7. 1911 Boston Rustlers (later Braves) 13.8
8. 1938 Philadelphia Phillies            15.8
9. 1941 Philadelphia Phillies            17.0
10. 1939 St. Louis Browns     17.4

11. 1909 Washington Nationals (later Senators) 17.6
12. 1942 Philadelphia Phillies            17.7
13. 1939 Philadelphia Phillies            17.9
14. 1915 Philadelphia Athletics         18.4
15. 1928 Philadelphia Phillies            20.8
16. 1925 Boston Red Sox      21.8
17. 1911 St. Louis Browns     22.8
18. 1945 Philadelphia Blue Jays (now Phillies) 23.0
19. 1969 San Diego Padres 23.1
19. 1910 St. Louis Browns     23.1

21. 1903 Washington Nationals (later Senators) 23.2
22. 1937 St. Louis Browns     24.2
23. 1926 Boston Red Sox      24.3
24. 1943 Philadelphia Athletics         25.7
25. 1961 Philadelphia Phillies            25.9
26. 1932 Boston Red Sox      26.0
26. 1963 New York Mets      26.0
28. 1979 Toronto Blue Jays 26.2
29. 1909 Boston Doves (later Braves) 26.5
30. 1953 Pittsburgh Pirates 28.0