‘Winning percentage .419’ Has there ever been such a scary last place? There is no team that is easy… Red pepper powder of fear, ranking battle variable

There is no easy team. Even the last-place team shows competitiveness with a winning percentage of 40.19%, making it difficult to predict a battle for rankings until the end of the season. 

In the three-game series last weekend, the top teams were caught by the bottom teams one after another, attracting attention. 1st place LG suffered a losing series with 2 losses after 1 win against 10th place Hanwha, and 2nd place KT was swept by 9th place Kiwoom by losing all three games in a row. 

Hanwha is on the verge of being ranked 10th and last for four consecutive years, but it is clearly more competitive than the previous three years. This year’s winning percentage is .4199 (44 wins, 61 losses, 6 draws), which is noticeably higher than 2020 (.326), 2021 (.371), and 2022 (.324). Although they are one game behind Hanwha, Kiwoom (.421), ranked 9th in winning percentage by playing 13 more games, is also recording more than .421. 

Throughout the 41 seasons of the KBO League until last year, the last team’s winning percentage has never exceeded .400 in 1983 Lotte (.434), 1989 Lotte (.434), 1991 OB (.413), 1998 Lotte (.410), and 2001. There were only 9 times, including Lotte (.457), Lotte (.410) in 2004, KIA (.408) in 2007, Hanwha (.408) in 2012, and NC (.406) in 2018. 바카라

This year, Hanwha is 11.5 games behind NC in 5th place and has lost the fall baseball season, but its winning percentage of .401/9 is the 4th highest among last-place teams in history. After Lotte in 2001 in the 2000s. Lotte, which finished in 8th place that year, had 59 wins, 70 losses, and 4 draws, the highest winning percentage (.457) for a last-place team ever, and was only two games behind Hanwha in fourth place. 

In the 10 years since 2013, when the 9-10 team system became more polarized, there was only one last-place win rate of .400. However, this year, along with the overall leveling of power, the winning percentage of the last-place team has increased significantly, and the battle for rankings has become more exciting. 

Every year around this time, teams that give up the season come out one by one and become targets for the top teams to win, but this year the atmosphere is different. Kiwoom, which has virtually tanked due to injuries to Lee Jeong-hoo and Ahn Woo-jin, has a justification for last place, but Hanwha has been in last place for four consecutive years and Samsung, ranked 8th, also wants to avoid last place for the first time since its founding. 

Samsung, Kiwoom, and Hanwha, ranked 8th to 10th, are within 2 games of each other, so the fight to get out of last place is expected to be fierce until the end. The mid-to-high ranking teams, who are in a hurry to play each game due to fall baseball from 1st to 5th place, cannot relax their nerves just because they are low-ranking teams. 

This week, Hanwha, ranked 10th, will play a 3-game home game against SSG, whose 3rd place position is also in jeopardy due to their recent 4 consecutive losses. 9th place Kiwoom goes to Changwon to face 5th place NC. Samsung, ranked 8th, meets Lotte, ranked 7th, in Ulsan, where there is still a glimmer of hope for fall baseball. Attention is being paid to whether it will be possible to sprinkle red pepper powder on the busy ranking competing teams.