I thought the results were fun so I figured I'd share.
This graph shows the average age of a team. There are two stark drop-offs at the tail end of the chart between Kentucky and Canton, and then again at Reno and Yuma. This graph got me thinking. How do older teams coincide with younger teams in terms of overall success? I decided to chart it out...
This... wasn't as interesting or as stark as I thought it might be. While it does show that, as a whole, teams with older players are generally more successful, the difference is so minute as to be insignificant. This also doesn't take into account the fact that more historically successful teams generally have more money to go get - you guessed it - older, more expensive players in free agency.
While the exercise didn't really yield anything too earth-shattering, I thought it was very interesting that there wasn't a clear delineation between old and young teams in terms of raw winning percentage.
Below are the data set I used for the above graphs and then some fun facts about some other stuff I learned while doing this...
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Place Team Avg Age Winning %
1 LONDON 29.775 0.479
2 SHIN SEIKI 29.5429 0.695
3 WEST VIRGINIA 29.5 0.607
4 ARLINGTON 29.275 0.521
5 KALAMAZOO 29.2368 0.347
6 FLORIDA 29.2286 0.556
7 DULUTH 29.1795 0.441
8 PALM SPRINGS 29.1714 0.483
9 TOYAMA 29.027 0.458
10 AURORA 28.8857 0.602
11 SAN JUAN 28.8158 0.513
12 SCOTTISH 28.8108 0.556
13 CRYSTAL LAKE 28.6207 0.508
14 SAN ANTONIO 28.5143 0.402
15 NEW ORLEANS 28.5 0.453
16 HARTFORD 28.4103 0.521
17 KENTUCKY 28.3333 0.479
18 CANTON 27.625 0.508
19 NEO-TOKYO 27.5294 0.61
20 BAKERSFIELD 27.5263 0.559
21 FARGO 27.4103 0.585
22 OKINAWA 27.4 0.441
23 AMSTERDAM 27.2424 0.308
24 HAVANA 27.0833 0.607
25 RENO 27.0811 0.475
26 YUMA 26.4722 0.288
1. The youngest player on a PEBA roster just celebrated their twentieth birthday and is currently in the process of dismantling pitchers in AAA. Clyde Stinton of Bakersfield has accrued 8 days of service time thus far where he had seventeen at-bats to a lackluster performance... but of course for a then-nineteen year old, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise.
2. The oldest player on a roster is (of course) the dinosaur himself: Rob Raines. In fact, Rob is SO old that if he did retire (heaven forfend), just by removing him from the equation drops Fargo down 4 spots into the 25th, or second youngest team.
3. Only three teams are currently using all 40 of their roster spots: Arlington, Canton, and London.
4. The team with the least amount of players on the 40 man is Crystal Lake with a paltry 29!
5. The team with the most players 30+ on their team is London with 21!
6. The team with the least players 30+ on their team is Yuma with 5.