OT: Worst coach to ever win a major championship?
I had on the radio, and they were kind of making fun of Doc Rivers, who won an NBA Championship as coach of the Celtics. And it got me to thinking....who IS the worst coach to ever win a major championship...who can't you believe got a ring...? Their team had to be really good to carry him (or her), or the competition had to collapse and open the way, something happened that this person won one or more championships coaching their team...but you never felt they were particularly good at it.
I'm thinking winning it all, in any sport...not someone lucks into a Big Ten Championship because they don't play Michigan or Ohio State that year...really accomplished something. But still having very little to do with that accomplishment. Who would you nominate, who drives you crazy that they've won it all?
I'm not complaining about the payroll issue. I'm a Tigers fan and we have wealthy owner who likes to shell it out too. But if I was a fan of the Marlins or the Pirates or the A's who lose their good players to the Sox or the Yanks or the Dodgers because we couldn't pay them enough, I'd be pissed.
And fine, if baseball playoffs are such a crapshoot, then it's completely moot to discuss which managers are good in the playoffs. Then Torre wasn't good nor bad, he got what he got.
And fine, if baseball playoffs are such a crapshoot, then it's completely moot to discuss which managers are good in the playoffs.
as a teacher, i wish i could get my students to make my point for me in such an efficient way.
I'm agreeing with you then. I wasn't working under this assumption before, and neither were the people I was arguing with.
The guy saying "No, Torre is a good manager because look at all these World Series" wasn't working under that premise either.
The highest all time winning percentages team: all time record
The Yankees are first
... at a whopping .567
best post war win %age in a single season:
1954 | Cleveland Indians | AL | 111 | 43 | .721 |
over a 7 game series, the best reg. season team in post war history would be expected to win .721* 7 = 5 games against the median team in MLB. the playoffs obviously have teams that are better than the hypotheitcal median team, so the best team in reg season history (post war) would be expected to win less than 5 games in a 7 game series.
Fair enough.
This would have been a good first post, before all the mmmhmms, uh-huhs and wows.
wow