So which teams are the best bargains? This viz posted by the Wall Street Journal compares the Fan Cost Index for all 30 teams with their actual winning percentage and the team's overall quality measure to find bargains and bad deals for the last two weeks of the 2009 baseball season.
About this Viz
The Angels own the fourth-best record in baseball — just a half-game behind the second-best Red Sox and Dodgers — but have the fourth-lowest Fan Cost Index. The other four teams in the bottom five in cost all have losing records. Overall the Angels have won 59.7% of their games, and at home they’ve won 61.9% of the time. That makes an Angels ticket an excellent value. On the flip side, the Mets have the fourth-highest cost index in baseball but a putrid 65-85 record (though they have won one more game at home than they’ve lost, so there’s that).
