How We Do 2010With the real season coming up
here quick, let’s take a moment to see what
we look like in the grand scheme of things before
we add another year of numbers. (AKA,
another excuse to make charts in Excel!)
From beginning
of time to last season, the Giants rank #2 in the
league for win percentage. Not bad
really. The Yankees are the winner, of
course, and it doesn’t look like they will
be dethroned anytime soon. Dodgers are
catching up, but we still got a decent enough gap
there. (And just as an FYI, we rank #1 in
total actual wins, but since not every team
started in the 1800s, that standing isn’t
exactly a fair comparison.)
And since I was at it, here’s the rest of
the league, for my imaginary readers whose team
didn’t make the top 15:
I’m
betting Rays fans are hard core.
Now about some head-to-head? How do we
compare to other teams on a face-to-face
level?
Giants are still
beating out everyone else in the National
League. They have more wins vs losses than
each and every team, though it looks like the
Dodgers are a few wins away from pushing that bar
to the left. But that’s what makes
good rivalry, right? Who wants to have a
rivalry with a team that sucks?
American League
is kicking our butts a bit harder. Of
course, we face them much less, which makes each
loss much more powerful than the National League
chart. Looks like 6 out of 14 teams are
beating us more than we’re beating them,
including the A’s, which…sucky!
Still above average though.
All-in-all not a bad state of affairs.
Again though, this is over the Giants entire
history, so I’m betting a lot of their
momentum was built back in the day. Best make sure
we keep things going so we can stay on top, eh?
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