Baseball records...
Aug. 29th, 2007 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuSo I was wondering idly this morning... The best record that a baseball team could (theoretically) have and not be World Series Champions is 172-4. (Sweep all 162 regular season games, 3 games in the division pennant, 4 in the league championship, the first 3 World Series games, then lose the most heartbreaking four games in history.)
What's the worst record a team could have and still win the World Series? I don't know enough about how the season schedule is constructed to answer the key question of how many intra-division games there are --- they'd have to win exactly half of those plus one, right? That's assuming that every game is played and none are rained out; if we allow for canceled games, how few do they have to win to win their division?
[Edited to hide evidence of my lack of knowledge about baseball]
What's the worst record a team could have and still win the World Series? I don't know enough about how the season schedule is constructed to answer the key question of how many intra-division games there are --- they'd have to win exactly half of those plus one, right? That's assuming that every game is played and none are rained out; if we allow for canceled games, how few do they have to win to win their division?
[Edited to hide evidence of my lack of knowledge about baseball]