stoopidstats 2019 ranking by wins

And now that the baseball season is over, I can go back to looking at how the various Major League franchises rank in terms of all-time win total. And how things look if you group teams by location or by state (or state-like political unit) or nickname.
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The file (complete with neato graphs!) is here.

At any rate, some congratulations are in order.

The Braves passed the Cardinals to become the 4th-winningest franchise.
The Braves went 97-65, moving their win-total from 10,825 to 10,922.
The Cardinals went 91-71, moving their win-total from 10,828 to 10,919.

The Brewers passed the Royals to become the 22nd-winningest franchise.
The Brewers went 89-73, moving their win-total from 3,824 to 3,913.
The Royals went 59-103, moving their win-total from 3,842 to 3,901.

Washington (home of the Nationals) passed Baltimore (home of the Orioles) to become the 11th-winningest location.
The Nationals went 93-69, moving Washington's win-total from 6,755 to 6,848.
The Orioles went 54-108, moving Baltimore's win-total from 6,770 to 6,824.

Miami (home of the Marlins) passed Buffalo (not currently a home location) to become the 33rd-winningest location.
The Marlins went 57-105, moving Miami's win-total from 498 to 555.
Buffalo's win total stayed at 504.

The District of Columbia (home state-like entity of the Nationals) passed Maryland (home state of the Orioles) to become the 10th-winningest state or ste-like entity.
The Nationals went 93-69, moving DC's win-total from 6,755 to 6,848.
The Orioles went 54-108, moving Maryland's win-total from 6,770 to 6,824.

"Brewers" passed "Royals" to become the 21st-winningest team name.
The Brewers went 89-73, moving their name's win-total from 3,837 to 3,926.
The Royals went 59-103, moving their name's win-total from 3,842 to 3,901.

"Diamondbacks" passed "Beaneaters" to become the 31st-winningest team name.
The Diamondbacks went 85-77, moving their name's win-total from 1,678 to 1,763.
There is, at present, no franchise using the name "Beaneaters," so that name's win-total stayed at 1,742.

"Nationals" passed "Robins" to become the 33rd-winningest team name.
The Nationals went 93-69, moving their name's win-total from 1,356 to 1,449.
There is, at present, no franchise using the name "Robins," so that name's win-total stayed at 1,375.

Congratulations to franchises, locations state-like entities and names that moved up in the ranks! Well played!

Also, congratulations to the name, "Rays." That name celebrated its 1,000th win this year. And congratulations to the name, "Reds" on celebrating its 10,000th win.

Finally, a note about team names. A colleague at work* asked about the Athletics. He said that during our childhood (his age is reasonably close to mine) they went back and forth between "A's" and "Athletics." He wanted to make sure that I am capturing that correctly. For the record, I am using baseballreference.com as my source for such things. They list that franchise as having always used the name "Athletics." Wikipedia indicates that they were the "A's" from 1968-1986. But I need to have one source and stick with it. So, for better or worse, I am treating the franchise as having always been the "Athletics." Relatedly, I know that team names weren't the subject of as much formality 100 and more years ago. There are probably a lot of cases where one can make a reasonable argument in favor of names other than what I am using. But, again, I need to have one source of truth, and that is baseballreference.com.**

*To protect my colleague's anonymity I won't reveal his name. Suffice to say he wears glasses or doesn't.
**There is one exception. There was one team that moved during the season. Baseballreference.com doesn't have enough information to correctly ascribe the wins to the two locations. To do that I had to supplement with information from Wikipedia.