The best possible sports season is winning every game of the year and the postseason to come away with a championship. The worst possible sports season is losing every single game. Easy, right?
While both of those results are possible in the National Football League, teams in Major League Baseball play too many games for either to happen. Even the best teams in the league lose dozens of games, and the fact of the matter is that every season exists in the wide, wide valley between losing and winning every game.
So what constitutes the realistic best season? I decided to carve up types of seasons into eight broad categories and power rank the worst to the best results.
A few caveats: I’m not taking expectations into account here. Expecting a bad team to be good or vice versa can totally c