Most Dominating and Dominated Teams

Pro Yakyu Guru Albright-san has written a complementary study to the one here about Pro Yakyu Dynasties. This new essay uses a different methodology to find the "Most Dominant/Most Dominated Single Season Teams in Japanese Baseball History."

One of the more interesting conclusions that Albright-san reached was that dominating and dominated teams often go hand in hand. Also, while he suggested that free agency plays a role in evening out the field (as it most likely has with the Majors), I think that it was actually the draft that has played a major role in levelling off the playing field in Japan. But the study does show that perhaps free agency doesn't help the Giants as much as many would think.

As the dynasty essay suggests, the Giants and Lions appear a great deal in the dominating list for this study. What surprised me, though, was that the Tigers were not on the dominated list. While they have been pretty much dominated by everybody the past several years, it appears that they haven't been as bad as some of the historic teams.

Yokohama's been able to win of late (riding a four game winning streak now). Projecting their current winning percentage to 140 games will give them a 41 and 96 (3 ties) record while scoring 425 and giving up 661 runs. Applying the dominated formula gives an index of 164.63 (feel free to check my math). That would rank them the 11th worst team of all time. I hope they can pick up after that awful May.