I will get to the game, but right now running database queries on baseball history is a lot more fun than watching this team.
In my last installment, I asked about the worst team with the best players. This came up when I looked at the 1986 White Sox, who won 70 games with four Hall of Famers on the roster, admittedly mostly past their prime. JamesD84 suggested that an even better choice might be the mid-60’s Cubs.
JamesD84 is correct. I took every team’s roster in each year and calculated their lifetime WAR. I then calculated the Legacy Rating: Total WAR/(Winning Percentage in the year x 162).