APBA Blog reader Don George is becoming known for his single team baseball replays. Last year, he replayed the Baltimore Orioles 1969 season. Over the winter, he took on the Yankees 1961 season replay. Both were pleasantly documented.
This time, Don has risen to the challenge of what many call the ultimate Yankee team, the 1927 Yankees. Certainly, the 1927 Bronx Bombers are one of the most famous and even in the 70s, I was told by my older brother that they were the best team of all time.
Don documents his setup of his replay:
- All games were played with cards and dice. Score was kept on paper and statistics were compiled via Excel.
- Starting lineups were derived from Baseball-reference.com.
- Plate appearances for hitters and innings pitched for pitchers were monitored throughout the season to best reflect reality.
You can see the results of Don’s replay here. In his replay, the Yanks went 115-40.
Don’s Season at a Glance
The Yankees began the season 5-4, then won the next nineteen (19) games straight! During the balance of the season, the Yanks were often in control by building an early lead. In fact, the Yankees scored 51% of the time in the first inning during the replay compared to 41% during actual play.
The Yankees won fifty-eight (58) games by five runs or more in the replay compared to forty-three (43) blow-out wins in
actual play.
The Yankee team batting average was .310 in the replay versus .307 in actual play. Yankee replay ERA was 3.58 vs. 3.20
actual.
The Yankees excelled across the power categories. Yankee replay home runs were 5% more, triples 15% more and
doubles 8% more. This factored into a .500 team slugging percentage in the replay versus .488 in actual play.
Don’s recap does a great job comparing his replay stats with the actual stats from 1927. How did Ruth do? He matched his record-breaking 60 homeruns on the dot!
APBA must have changed Waite Hoyt’s grade because I seemed to remember Wilcy Moore being the only A on the 1927 Yankees when I had the World Series set. Waite is indeed an A on Don’s set (rightly so) and performed admirably with 28 wins and a 2.23 ERA.
Well done, Don! Keep it up! Again, you can read Don’s great recap here!
Yes, you are correct Tom. In the older 1927 set, Hoyt is graded B (Z). In the 2015 update, Hoyt is graded A (Y)(Z). I own both issues and the differences are very interesting. It’s hard though to make any generalizations as I don’t believe they used the XY at that time and they adjusted the hitters accordingly.