Written by Joseph Coblitz at Bloguin
As baseball fans, we have been graced to have four teams in the League Championship round who are not perennial powerhouses. This is the first year since 2011 that we didn’t have at least two of the Giants, Cardinals, Red Sox, and Yankees and the first year since 1997 that none of those four made it this far. If nothing else, that should help even out what has been a very lopsided list of winners in baseball history.
To see just how lopsided that history has been, I thought it would be interesting to look into how many World Series each team should have won in it’s history, all things being equal. Since many years the National and American Leagues had different numbers of teams, this was done by finding the odds of each team winning the Pennant each year (you may divide this number by two if you would like the World Series total).
Rather than supply you with years and years worth of confusing numbers featuring many city changes and expansion, I’ll give you this pretty, zig-zaggy, color coded chart below:
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