I was curious, has anyone done a ranking of worlds lately? I would love to see one. If you have a formula and don't have the time to do it, I'd be glad to go through and rank worlds.

Yaz rules!

1530 Homer is first in alphanumerical order.

That puts Yaz last.

Anyone gonna start a Zimmerman world any time soon?  We in Yastrzemski would like to get out of last place.

I wish I knew what half of the worlds meant.  Like plumpyrules , 1530 homer, evangeline league.. ?

1530 Homer is a sports-talk radio station is Cincinnati where the original WIS headquarters was located before being acquired by FoxSports.  The original commish is one of their hosts.

WIS is still in Cincinnati. Plumpy was a WIS legend until he left shortly after HBD started.

Posted by caesari on 4/9/2012 6:59:00 PM (view original):
I was curious, has anyone done a ranking of worlds lately? I would love to see one. If you have a formula and don't have the time to do it, I'd be glad to go through and rank worlds.

BUMP the question... LOL

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Posted by MikeT23 on 4/10/2012 5:03:00 PM (view original):

Maybe you could create a formula.

I'd love to, but there is a reason I majored in History... I'm not sure how to set it up, much less how to run it.

Like I said, I'd be willing to do the work. I just need a formula. 

Evangeline was a Cajun league that went thru some sort of game fixing scandal long ago, and considering the Louisiana swamps, far away as well

i had started on a rankings project but it stalled.

I was looking at team fielding and pitching stats--and ranking leagues by the league averages. The thought is that the better fielding (measured by flielding pct and +/- ) and lower era, the more competant and attentive the owners are.

I also looked at parity and penalized a league for having a bunch of 100+ winning and losing teams.

The tricky part is how to weigh the variables fairly. You can change the weights and make the ratings say almost anything. I wasnt to that point yet, really--I was still filling in the data.

Some of the ranking systems looked at turnover. For simplicity I wasnt going to do that initially--it would be a bit easier to roll that variable in as worlds roll. But Im not sure Id include turnover. If the teams are well managed--does it really matter whose name is next to the team? Turnover is a symptom of a bad league, not the cause.

Turnover is a symptom of a bad league, but isn't that the one of the points of rankings . . . identifying the good versus the bad?