Pretty cool list!

[Hammerojustice]

This is a pretty cool list... According to this list which calculated out a number of factors including WS, making playoffs, win%, major awards, HOFers, minor league system, and basically run differential... Each factor contributed a certain amount of points towards the total for each team for each year... highest point total = the best year... And since WS was a factor, it excluded any team before 1903.

The Yankees best season to have seen the team play was 1939 with 52 points. The next closest were the 1976 Reds with 42 points... Boston's best year was 1912 with 32 points... go figure...

Going back through the list so far, the 1976 Reds were the only team to break 40 points. The 1939 Yankees broke 50. In fact, eight different Yankee seasons are rated at 40 points or more. As for 30 point seasons, there are like a billion or something. The times when it hasn't been great to be a Yankees fan are fewer than the times when it has been.

According to the system, being a Yankees fan during the 1939 season was the best time to be a fan of any team ever. The Yankees won the World Series for the fourth consecutive time that season. Three of those four teams won 100 games, and the one that didn't (1938) won 99. That 1939 team had six Hall of Famers* with Joe Gordon, Joe DiMaggio, Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey and Lou Gehrig. Gehrig only played in eight games that season, and on July 4 of that season, gave his famous "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech; he would be dead in less than two years. That season the Yankees scored the most runs of any team in baseball and gave up the fewest. DiMaggio won the MVP with 30 homers, six triples and a 1.119 OPS. He was 24 at the time.

*The 1930-33 teams had nine Hall of Famers.

There are other sections of Yankee history that could qualify. For example, from 1947 through 1964 the Yankees failed to make the World Series just three times. They made it the other 15, winning an astounding 10. So that was a pretty OK time, too. Just throw a dart at a calendar, or heck, stand there in your underpants eating a popsicle and looking at the wall. That right there was the best time to be a Yankee fan! For this team, this article asks the wrong question. It should be, when wasn't the best time to be a Yankees fan?

http://www.sportsonearth.com/articl...every-mlb-team?partnerId=ed-7952973-658620023

For what it's worth... the worst:

the 2007 Colorado Rockies with 14 points

We move from the system's second highest scoring team to its lowest -- well, okay, tied for the lowest. In their short history, the Rockies haven't had lots of success. To date, nobody with a plaque in Cooperstown has ever put on a Rockies uniform. The franchise has one World Series appearance and was promptly swept. I don't want to make it seem like 2007 was a bad time to be a Rockies fan -- it certainly wasn't. The team made the World Series, which is quite an accomplishment, and had good young talent on the major league roster and the second-highest ranked minor league system. The present was fun and the future was promising.

and

the 1979 Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals also with 14 points

It's a shame, because the Expos could've been something. When the 1994 players strike wiped out the rest of the season and the World Series, it wiped out an Expos team that was on a 105-win pace. Excluding that potentially playoff-bound '94 team, 1981 is the only season Montreal tasted the playoffs, and still that doesn't get them to the top of the (admittedly meager) list. The '79 group tops them, three Hall of Famers to two (thanks Tony Perez!), and they beat Houston out for the least runs allowed that season by one run.

As for the Nationals, the 2012 season stands at the pinnacle of recent Washington baseball fan satisfaction, but after winning 98 games, the team lost in the divisional round of the playoffs. It was a letdown powerful enough to run an entire city's new television sets (which everyone had to buy after a chucking heavy objects through their old ones). The Nationals have a brighter future ahead for many reasons, but the most basic is that their organizational past has the brightness of a blindfolded man in a cave.

and then

the 2005, 1986, 1981, 1980 Houston Astros and the 1984 San Diego Padres all with 16 Points each...