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    1. I’d be interesting seeing the mediocrity of these teams compared to their overall team budgets. Is anyone getting a great deal vs a shit one for their mediocrity?

    2. It would be beautifuler if the team names didn’t overlap on the plot. But I like the data it’s fun!

    3. eggs_and_bacon on

      I was confused by the Pirates ranking until I realized we’re in the exclusive „Too Bad to Be Mediocre“ tier with the Royals and Orioles

    4. Baseball would still be the number one sport in America if they used promotion/relegation and gave every community in america a chance to earn a spot.

      Instead they chose monopoly and I don’t understand why 80% of America isn’t up in arms about being shut out of the monopoly.

      Can’t wait for the replies from the monopoly simps.

    5. Looks like the mariners are close to the most medicore medicore team. Sounds right.

    6. The giants have won 3 WS in the past 25 years. Most fan bases, mine included, would sacrifice their children for that “mediocracy.”

    7. I’m 42, been a Twins fan my whole life; still am. They’re right smack-dab in the middle of mediocre lolol! That fits perfectly.

    8. Calling the Giants, who are tied for the most WS wins by a team in the last 25 years with 3, the 6th most mediocre team during that time is something.

    9. TheTattooOnR2D2sFace on

      As a Phillies fan I’ll count it as a win cause we’re less mediocre than the Mets. Fuck the Mets.

    10. MadRoboticist on

      How on earth are the Giants so far to the left? They have 3 World Series.

    11. This is confusing. teams that are truly mediocre (closest to .500 over a number of seasons) are at the far left but teams that are either too good or too bad to be considered mediocre are bunched together at the far right? Took me a second to realize what I’m looking at.

      The Rockies are so bad historically that even on a mediocrity list they place in the middle.

    12. > The Blue Jays are truly an incredibly mediocre team.

      Do the Toronto Maple Leafs.

    13. stumpy_chica on

      Toronto likes to have consistently mediocre teams. Sometimes it’s embarrassing being a leafs fan lol

    14. polomarkopolo on

      Don’t show Blue Jays fans this… every damn year they’re a player away from winning it all

    15. mssngthvwls on

      *We’re just okay! 👏🏻 We’re just okay! 🙌🏻 We’re just okay! 👏🏻*

      – Jays fan

    16. Splinterfight on

      This graph ignores the fact that 1 great season outweighs many mediocre ones. It’s counting a 60% win rate season the same as a 90% win rate season. Maybe the sum of distance from the mean/middle of the pack for each season would be more agreeable to human psychology.

    17. xHourglassx on

      As a Cleveland sports fan, I feel like the Guardians should be higher. Sure they make a run at the division every year and make the occasional ALCS and a couple of WS but they’re never dominant and never bad. They’re pretty much at or just above .500 at all times. Isn’t that the definition of mediocre?

    18. I love how Tigers are in the middle mediocre. The mediocre of the mediocre. It’s like being in the middle of the middle

    19. celluloidsandman on

      I like the methodology, but I think you need to add championships / playoff performance to the mix.

      That is to say, if a team wins a championship, or makes a World Series, or makes an AL/NLCS and so on, there’s some reasonable boost to the score on one of those axes (probably the mediocre season rate)

    20. GarrusExMachina on

      The blue jays are incredibly adept at acquiring just enough talent to be above average in at least 2 areas of the game but not being a marquee destination enough or paying enough to acquire enough talent to be elite and not being good enough at development to be the rays…

      The pocket books have been better lately but history is history

    21. Hey man this doesn’t make sense unless mediocre means average

      How can the A’s rank so high when most seasons they suck?

      So, what you’re saying isn’t mediocre is any team that isn’t near 500 every season. 

      This is interesting, but the data should read differently

    22. These two graphs together tell me that the Rays are always great or terrible, with no middle ground. Yet they manage these extremes in roughly equal proportion.

      Does that match reality?

    23. .450 to .550 in baseball seems like such a wide gap. that includes all but 5 teams in the data set. even this year, there are 18 teams in that range. it feels like you’re going to get some wonky results when you have such a (relatively) big range.

    24. Being a mediocre team in the AL east means being a great team anywhere else lol (except NL west).

    25. The_Baron___ on

      The Blue Jays suffer from the same issue that all Toronto teams suffer from:

      1) Massive fan-base that stretch across Canada
      2) Fan loyalty and sales no matter their success

      Some teams need to win for anyone to care, especially in the NHL (which, admittedly I’m more familiar with), but people across Canada tune into the games for the teams in Toronto, especially the Blue Jays, making them profitable without requiring performance.

      They are wealthy enough to afford great players, but pulling American players into Canada is tough, and they will have a enough people watching and buying paraphernalia that they just have to do well enough to stay playing to keep attention.

    26. Kitchen_Can_3555 on

      Man my team is right in the middle… they’re even mediocre at being mediocre!

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