ESPN released their Top 118 World Series’ ever with these metrics:
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1. Game leverage index, at Baseball-Reference, which measures how close the game is on each play and how likely the next play is to shift each team's chances of winning. A game that's close for nine innings and won by a walk-off in the 10th will rate much better than one in which a team jumps ahead early and runs away with it.
2. Championship leverage index, at The Baseball Gauge. It's similar to game leverage, except it includes how close the series itself is. A seven-game series will rate much better than a sweep.
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3. How memorable the series was. The 1988 World Series wasn't particularly close, but it produces instant recall for one inning alone.
4. How historically significant it was, and how satisfying that history is.
We'll list each World Series' rank in the first two categories. The latter two are subjective, so we'll just describe them as best we can.
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The Royals ended up with the #83, #30, #29 and #16 World Series matchups. Which series went where?
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