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... http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/68601534/calculating-the-best-time-to-be-a-fan-of-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...
