This is an update to the 2023 World Rankings that was put together by minihouston and bruinsfan911. Minihouston sent me his master spreadsheet which I updated and added the worlds that now had at least 4 completed seasons to the list. I have not changed the formula except for removing the credit of an active blog - the reason for this is that I didn't have time to go through and look at every world's blog and the impact on the rankings is extremely minimal. Similar to last time, these rankings are based on the last four seasons. What I saw based on the Previous rankings is that's easy for worlds to move up and down the rankings. Thus, I am only going to post the top 50 worlds. If anyone wants to know what their world is ranked, feel free to sitemail me and I am happy to send you the ranking.

I don't want people to feel discouraged about joining a world not in the top 50. There are legitimate reasons as to why a world might be ranked lower for a certain period of time, but could still be a very solid world.

These are the criteria that were used in the rankings with the current averages listed.

Turnover - Number of replacement owners a league had to fill within 4 seasons. One thing to keep in mind is, there are 128 teams in 4 seasons. The world average to replace is 12 owners.
Seasons a World was required to fill 3+ teams - Similar to turnover, but this one takes into account how many seasons out of 4, did a world have to replace 3+ owners. The 2018 rankings looked at the wait time, but there are reasons as pointed out in that thread why a league might take their time filling a slot. Mini's theory is, if there are more than 3 owners that need to be replaced every season, then the turnover rate would slow down between seasons. The average was 2.1 out of 4 seasons.
Number of different franchises to win their Division - Out of the 32 division titles within a four season window, how many unique teams were able to claim their division? This gives us a glimpse into the world and if the same teams are sitting a top each division or not. The 2018 rankings took into account the Wildcard, but the 2023 rankings decided to keep the focus on winning the division; even though plenty of teams have won the World Series as Wildcard teams. The HBD average is 16 different teams over 4 seasons.
Number of different franchises to make the World Series - How many different teams within a world made it to their World Series over four seasons. Highest possibility would be 8 teams, meaning two different teams make it each of the four seasons. The HBD world average is 5.6 different teams so worlds are typically being led by dynasties.
100+ Win teams - How many 100+ win teams during the last 4 seasons. HBD world average is 14.6.
110+ Win teams - How many 110+ win teams during the last 4 seasons. HBD world average is 4.4.
100+ Loss teams - How many 100+ loss teams during the last 4 seasons. HBD world average is 13.1.
110+ Loss teams - How many 110+ loss teams during the last 4 seasons. HBD world average is 3.6.
Average run differential between top 3 and bottom 3 teams - Rather than looking at the second highest and lowest win total as they did in the 2018 rankings, the 2023 rankings wanted to look at the run differential between the top 3 teams and the bottom 3 teams of each league. The smaller the number the closer the standings typically are, and thus the more competitive the league. HBD world average is 1066.
Number of franchises to miss division by less than 8 games - In the spirit of competitiveness, we wanted to look at how close division games were. A more competitive league would see division games close and likely exciting up through the end of the season. HBD world average is 16 out of 96 teams.
Number of franchises to miss division by more than 25 games - A less competitive league would see division champs determined by or before the trade deadline. This one specifically looks at how far a part the rebuilding teams are from the champs of the league. HBD world average is 34 out of 96 teams. That's basically a third of the league is 25 games out of the division.

Rankings will be in the next post

Prev Rank World Tunover Seasons to replace 3+ Teams # Diff Div Winners World Series Franchises 100+ W Teams 110+ W Teams 100+ L Teams 110+ L Teams Avg Run Diff of Top 3 vs Bot 3 Teams Missed Div by less than 8 games Missed Div by 25+ games 65 1 Clemens 11 1 20 8 12 1 6 2 936 18 21 90 2 Walter Johnson 6 1 20 6 11 3 8 1 837 16 30 87 3 Josh Gibson 6 0 19 4 9 2 11 2 853 23 25 78 4 Yogi Berra 14 3 20 5 6 1 8 1 842 31 18 16 5 Say Hey 8 2 20 7 11 2 16 1 924 21 22 7 6 Moonlight Graham 13 3 18 8 12 0 7 1 803 17 22 44 7 Moneyball 4 1 16 6 13 2 8 4 925 22 22 20 8 Summer of Seaver 5 1 17 5 7 1 9 2 1041 16 20 51 9 Rice Not Lynn 8 0 16 6 14 1 11 1 1005 17 24 5 10 Addicted Users 9 1 13 7 12 2 7 1 968 23 31 77 11 NCAA 5 0 15 7 11 3 12 1 879 18 39 10 12 Big Sky Alumni 7 1 15 7 11 4 8 1 997 16 27 38 13 Negro League 4 0 15 6 13 3 14 2 926 21 26 49 14 Williams/Mattingly 10 2 15 7 11 1 11 2 982 17 27 29 15 ULB 8 2 17 5 9 3 11 2 956 23 32 113 16 Wrigleyville 3 0 16 3 8 2 8 4 926 16 25 60 17 Strawberry-Gooden 3 0 17 7 9 3 14 5 894 18 39 57 18 Stickball 8 1 16 6 13 5 9 3 969 20 23 56 19 Hamilton 7 1 16 7 13 3 11 3 935 13 27 119 20 FizWorld 6 0 15 5 15 4 13 0 967 23 29 22 21 Cobb 6 1 18 8 13 2 11 3 1126 15 35 8 22 Guinness 9 2 18 8 15 4 9 3 1088 18 22 27 23 Dirt 5 1 18 4 13 4 7 2 1011 18 35 12 24 Upper Deck 15 3 19 5 14 1 11 1 1052 22 27 19 25 Pine Tar 11 2 16 5 9 1 14 4 937 20 25 117 26 BBWAA 3 0 15 7 14 3 15 4 894 16 30 64 27 Gwynn 9 2 16 5 14 3 8 4 927 21 26 59 28 NCAA II 12 1 19 6 14 1 9 1 1131 13 31 126 29 UBA/Fisk 8 2 19 7 11 3 12 3 1136 14 30 93 30 Ueker 12 3 17 6 13 2 11 4 945 20 28 33 31 Jackie Robinson 14 4 16 6 11 0 9 4 855 16 24 34 32 Glavine300 11 3 16 6 12 5 10 3 894 23 32 25 33 Mantle 14 3 15 7 11 1 7 3 931 12 29 125 34 7Mantle7 12 2 19 6 12 3 12 3 1098 14 25 35 35 7jerry7 23 4 19 5 18 1 10 2 943 28 21 101 36 Kaline 6 1 18 7 19 6 8 2 941 15 41 NR 37 Paul Skenes 15 3 18 6 10 4 12 2 1194 18 29 88 38 Eckersley 9 1 13 6 15 2 15 2 1026 20 32 91 39 Capra 8 1 16 5 14 3 13 1 940 12 38 28 40 The MLB 12 3 17 7 17 4 9 2 1124 23 37 NR 41 Field of Dreams 8 1 19 6 13 5 15 5 937 14 34 17 42 Rickey 15 2 16 6 14 1 13 4 1037 22 36 82 43 Ruth 13 3 17 6 12 2 13 7 951 17 31 42 44 Riley 19 4 16 5 11 6 3 0 1145 21 17 97 45 Casey Stengel 18 3 18 5 13 4 7 2 1189 19 28 40 46 CAPB 14 3 16 7 12 3 13 3 1099 16 32 23 47 Cooperstown 17 3 15 5 10 4 7 4 976 18 28 9 48 Kenny Powers 8 1 16 5 13 5 12 4 1010 11 28 1 49 Gibson 9 1 16 5 18 6 14 2 936 17 34 94 50 Kenesaw Mountain Landis 11 2 16 5 11 3 16 7 1086 22 29

Remaining Worlds (ranked 51-125) in alphabetical order:

7Mickey7

7Yankees7

Aaron

Alexander

All the Way Mae

Around The Horn

Bench

BIG LEAGUE

Big Leagues

Bo Jackson

Buckner/Feller

Cal Ripken

Canseco/Ripken Jr

Clarkson/Martinez

Clemente

Cobbfather

Cool Papa Bell

Cy Young

Dale Murphy

Diamondbacks

DiMaggio

Double Foxx

Doubleday

Earl Weaver

Edmonds

Erffdogg Memorial League

F.Y.C.

Gehringer

Griffey

Halladay

Hardball Central

Hardball Stitches

Henderson

Hornsby

Hunter

Ichiro

Inside The Park

Jersey League

jj cincy Memorial, OCD

Just A Bit Outside

King Felix

Kinsella

Knuckleball

Kobylesky

LEG

Lets Play Two

Long Haul R Us

Major Leagues

Majors

Mathewson

mauer

Mays

Minor League Baseball

Munson

Ozzie Smith

Pete Rose

Piazza

Pioneer League

Plumpy

Regular Joes

Robinson

Sabo-Gehrig

Satchel Paige

Schtickless

Spahn

Suicide Squeeze

Swing Batter Batter

The Sandlot

The Show

TheWheaties

USMLB

Vin Scully

Vlad Guerrero

Wailing Onions

Yount

Top rated worlds in each category:

Turnover - Fewest was 3 teams for these worlds
BBWAA
Strawberry-Gooden
Wrigleyville
Yount


Seasons a World was required to fill 3+ teams - Fewest was 0 for these 15 worlds:
7Mickey7
BBWAA
Buckner/Feller
Doubleday
FizWorld
Josh Gibson
Kinsella
NCAA
Negro League
Rice Not Lynn
Strawberry-Gooden
Swing Batter Batter
Vin Scully
Wrigleyville
Yount

Number of different franchises to win their Division - The highest variance came from Plumpy Rules with 23 different division winners over 4 seasons.

Number of different franchises to make the World Series - These six worlds had 8 different teams make the World Series:
BIG LEAGUE
Clemens
Cobb
Double Foxx
Guinness
Moonlight Graham

100+ Win teams - Yogi Berra had the fewest teams with 100+ win teams with 6 over four seasons.
110+ Win teams - Moonlight Graham and Jackie Robinson were the only worlds without any 110+ win teams in their last four seasons.
100+ Loss teams - Riley had the fewest teams with 100+ losses at 3 over four seasons.
110+ Loss teams - Four worlds had 0 teams with 110+ losses: FizWorld, Hunter, Mays, Riley

Average run differential between top 3 and bottom 3 teams - Moonlight Graham had the lowest average run differential between top 3 and bottom 3 teams at 803
Number of franchises to miss division by less than 8 games - Yogi Berra had 31 teams miss their division by less than 8 games over a four season period. Next highest was 28 by 7jerry7 and then it drops to 25 (LEG).
Number of franchises to miss division by more than 25 games - Riley was #1 at only 17 teams to finish 25+ games out. Only other world under 20 was Yogi Berra (18)

Thank you for the time and effort in putting the world rankings together. I really appreciate that you did that. Im happy to see I play in two worlds that made the top 50, which includes one that I commish. Again, thank you for taking the time and effort to compile the data from each world to make the world rankings

Thanks for your work on this. I'd add the following to the calculation: Cumulative winning percentage of current owners (Cooperstown would be at the top of that rating), as well as a minor league competitiveness rating. Happy to help with future ones.

Posted by opie100 on 7/17/2026 12:58:00 PM (view original):
Thanks for your work on this. I'd add the following to the calculation: Cumulative winning percentage of current owners (Cooperstown would be at the top of that rating), as well as a minor league competitiveness rating. Happy to help with future ones.

Sounds good, opie. That might be doable and we can work it out on the HBD Discord.

This is awesome! Thanks for doing the work guys!

Cool stats, thanks for running it.