Happy New Year and The Suffering Index is Updated for 2023

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2023 has arrived. One MLB fan base will look back at this year as a magical one. And perhaps a long suffering fan base will have their pain eased.

Several years ago, Sully created the Suffering Index as a method to quantify which fan base has been going through the most and the least amount of agony.

With some adjustments over the years, the formula takes into account length of waiting for a title, the close games that slipped away and losing seasons endured since the last title.

Cleveland fans... look away.

Below is the updated formula for the Suffering Index.

(Number of Years Since a Team’s Last World Series Title)

+ (Number of Years Since a Team’s Last Pennant ÷ 4)

+ (Number of Years Since the World Series Title BEFORE the Last one ÷ 8)

+ (Number of Years Since a Team’s Last Post Season Appearance ÷ 16)

+ (Number of Deciding or One Game Playoffs LOST since last World Series title x 10)

– (Number of Deciding or One Game Playoffs WON since last World Series title)

+ (Number of sub .500 Seasons Since Last World Series Title X2)

+ (Number of 100 loss Seasons Since Last World Series Title X3)

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