![[OC] Phillies' franchise historical performance relative to .500](https://www.rawchili.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/85qekmlrr06g1-1920x1024.png)
Visiting Pirates fan here!
During the offseason, I'm creating a graph like this for every MLB team. It tracks each franchise's cumulative record relative to .500 (equal wins and losses) throughout their entire history.
The annotations show the franchise's all-time peak, lowest point, and most recent time at exactly .500.
The complete album can be seen here. I also made the NFL and NHL charts (before the current season).
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Thanks, I hate it.
On track to be over .500 by 2115
Blue is the good colour, right?!
If the Phillies won 100 games every year it would still take 29 seasons to get back to .500
Are we sure that isn’t just the Mariana Trench?
I don’t think we can comprehend how lucky we are to see competent Phillies teams. Especially those of us around in 2008 or 1980.
Guys, I’m starting to think those World Wars weren’t too good.
.500 is pretty good considering the abysmal early years.
I need a 60 minute doc on the Phillies of the ‘30s – ‘50s. How is a team so consistently bad for so long
No wonder my Great Grandpa was an A’s fan.
2 championships in 143 seasons somehow seems more impressive
People do not understand how bad the 30s-40s were for the Phils
Did we even show up to the field in the 30s?
So just go undefeated for the next 7 seasons to get back over .500 – it’s simple math, easy-peasy.
The Phillies’ 1918 to 1948 period accounts for pretty much all of their games below .500 franchise-wise. If you exclude those seasons, the Phillies are actually slightly above .500. (I believe they are slightly below .500 in the period from 1949 to present.)
I was looking forward to this, it’s great. It’s funny how regular the waves are as the teams ebb and flow. Hopefully we can continue this upswing for a while. Thanks for posting!
Fun fact: The Great Depression was actually named after the effect those Phillies teams had on their fans
3 consecutive decades of ASS. My god
I think of myself as a fan of a losing team but I was born in 1983 so that big losing stretch is well before my lifetime.
Last time the Phillies were over .500 as a franchise, my great grandfather was 14
Any other 1918 frontrunner fans here?
Better watch out motherfuckers, we’re making our big comeback.
Just wana say that the reaction to your Islanders graph is still one of the funniest things Ive read.
It’s nothing short of a miracle that the team didn’t move or fold.
We should pin this post for anytime new fans complain about a losing a couple games.
Anyone else remember watching the 10,000th loss?
We take our 1st team to 10000 losses award very seriously
I’ve accepted that we’re never getting back to .500. Trophies would make it hurt less
Basically 30 games over .500 for the next 36 years….lets gooooo!
Spring of ‘18. The real ones know how fun that was!
What the heck was ownership doing 1920-50?
Most losing team in the MLB. We got recognized for this a few years back
Yeah…that really puts things in perspective doesn’t it.