Friday, November 10, 2017

World Series: Yankees. 8 of 9.

1. Sunday in the park
2. Nine game series, eight games and tie
3. Home sweet home
4. Travel
5. Best of Seven WS
6. Sweeps
7. Regular Season
8. Yankees
9. Yanks 1960

This file contain pertinent data:


8. Yankees:

The New York Yankees have the most:
- WS played: 40
- wins: 27
- losses: 13.

Teams defeated most often:
- Dodgers: 8 (six in Brooklyn)
- Giants: 5 (four in New York).

Teams winning most often v. Yankees: Cardinals and Dodgers (once in Brooklyn), 3 each.

The Yanks played one best of nine WS, losing 5-3 to the Giants in 1921.

Best of seven WS, in which the losing team won this number of games:
LossesMLBYanksMLB-YanksYank%MLB-Yanks%MLB%Losses
339112828.21%71.79%35.78%3
224101341.67%54.17%22.02%2
12571828.00%72.00%22.94%1
021111052.38%47.62%19.27%0
Total109397035.78%64.22%100.00%Total
* Yanks were involved in one of the four best of nine WS.

The Yankees played in a much lower percentage of WS in which the loser won three games but had twice the percentage of WS in which the loser did not win a game.  In other words the Yanks have been less likely to go the maximum number of games and much more likely to go the minimum number of games.

EXcluding the best of nine 1921 WS (Giants won 5-3) but ...
INcluding 1922 WS (Giants won 4-0-1, game two was a tie),
Yankees record in WS with these losses:

Losses
W
L
Pct
WS
3
5
6
45.45%
11
2
8
2
80.00%
10
1
6
1
85.71%
7
0
8
3
72.73%
11
Total
27
12
69.23%
39

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