In a baseball world increasingly defined by advanced stats, with WAR as an end-all, one major figure on the field gets somewhat overlooked: the manager.
The task here is to dig deep into 118 Chicago White Sox seasons, assign a managerial WAR (let’s label it mWAR) for every season, in order to determine the best and worst managers in team history.
How do you do that? Well, one method is to use pythagorean records (the number of wins a team should have based on run differential), and that is incorporated in the research here.