2016 Broadcaster Rankings: Final Results

Recently, within this site’s electronic pages, the author facilitated a crowdsourcing effort with a view towards reproducing the broadcaster rankings which appeared here roughly four years ago. More recently, that same author published the updated results for television broadcasts here and for radio here.

The service which the author has failed to render, however, is to present all the results from that endeavor in one easily digestible form. The purpose of this post is to right that vile wrong.

Below, the reader will find two tables. The first contains the complete rankings for the league’s 62 distinct television and radio broadcast teams. The second features only the highest-ranked broadcast for each major-league club.

As in every other case, it’s important to stress here that the results of this exercise aren’t intended to represent the objective quality or skill of the relevant announcers, but rather to provide a clue as to which broadcast teams are likely to appeal most (or least) to the readers of this site. Note, furthermore, that the overall ratings which appear below are not mere averages of the charisma and analysis scores which accompany them, but a distinct category for which respondents submitted scores independently.

Those dozen caveats having been stated explicitly — and many more implied — here are the results of the 2016 broadcaster rankings.

First, the complete results in one table:

2016 Broadcaster Rankings Master Table

	Team	Format	Charisma	Analysis	Overall
1	Los Angeles NL (Home)	TV	4.8	4.2	4.8
2	San Francisco	TV	4.8	4.6	4.8
3	New York NL	TV	4.7	4.5	4.7
4	Texas	Radio	4.5	4.5	4.7
5	San Francisco	Radio	4.6	4.3	4.7
6	New York NL	Radio	4.6	4.3	4.6
7	Milwaukee	Radio	4.9	3.4	4.6
8	Washington	Radio	4.3	4.3	4.5
9	Philadelphia	Radio	4.6	3.7	4.5
10	Chicago NL	TV	4.1	4.4	4.4
11	Detroit	Radio	4.2	4.1	4.3
12	Los Angeles NL	Radio	4.2	3.9	4.2
13	Chicago NL	Radio	4.3	3.6	4.2
14	Oakland	Radio	3.8	3.7	4.1
15	Cleveland	Radio	4.1	3.4	4.0
16	Tampa Bay	Radio	3.9	4.0	4.0
17	Toronto	Radio	3.9	3.5	3.9
18	Baltimore	TV	3.9	3.5	3.9
19	Boston	Radio	3.8	3.4	3.9
20	Milwaukee	TV	3.9	3.3	3.9
21	Arizona	Radio	3.6	3.7	3.9
22	Tampa Bay	TV	3.6	3.6	3.8
23	Atlanta	Radio	3.8	3.2	3.8
24	St. Louis	Radio	3.9	3.1	3.7
25	Seattle	Radio	3.7	3.4	3.7
26	San Diego	Radio	3.8	3.6	3.7
27	Baltimore	Radio	3.8	3.3	3.6
28	Houston	Radio	3.4	3.5	3.6
29	Oakland	TV	3.5	3.4	3.6
30	Los Angeles AL	TV	3.7	3.2	3.6
31	Kansas City	Radio	3.5	3.4	3.5
32	San Diego	TV	3.8	3.1	3.5
33	Boston	TV	3.6	3.3	3.5
34	Detroit	TV	3.6	3.1	3.5
35	Pittsburgh	Radio	3.7	3.1	3.5
36	Kansas City	TV	3.8	3.0	3.5
37	Miami	Radio	3.4	3.3	3.4
38	Los Angeles NL (Away)	TV	3.1	3.4	3.3
39	Minnesota	Radio	3.2	3.2	3.3
40	Pittsburgh	TV	3.4	3.1	3.3
41	Houston	TV	3.1	3.3	3.3
42	Seattle	TV	3.2	3.2	3.3
43	Colorado	Radio	3.2	3.0	3.2
44	Arizona	TV	3.2	3.0	3.1
45	Chicago AL (Home)	TV	3.0	2.9	2.9
46	Texas	TV	2.9	2.6	2.9
47	Cincinnati	Radio	3.1	2.7	2.8
48	New York AL	TV	2.8	2.9	2.8
49	Miami	TV	2.9	2.6	2.8
50	Minnesota	TV	3.1	2.2	2.8
51	Los Angeles AL	Radio	2.4	2.7	2.8
52	St. Louis	TV	3.0	2.5	2.7
53	Toronto*	TV	2.9	2.2	2.6
54	Cleveland	TV	2.6	2.5	2.6
55	Washington	TV	2.6	2.3	2.5
56	Colorado	TV	2.5	2.2	2.4
57	Chicago AL	Radio	2.4	2.3	2.4
58	Cincinnati	TV	2.4	2.4	2.3
59	Atlanta	TV	2.4	2.1	2.3
60	Philadelphia	TV	2.3	2.2	2.2
61	New York AL	Radio	2.5	1.7	2.0
62	Chicago AL (Away)	TV	2.3	1.7	1.9

*Analysis and Overall scores accidentally transposed in earlier post. Moved from 31st to 25th among television broadcasts as a result.

And second, a variation of that table, but including only the top-rated broadcast team for each organization. (Note that both the Dodgers and White Sox feature multiple teams to account for home and away permutations.)

2016 Broadcaster Rankings Master Table (Best Team)

	Team	Format	Charisma	Analysis	Overall
1	Los Angeles NL (Home)	TV	4.8	4.2	4.8
2	San Francisco	TV	4.8	4.6	4.8
3	New York NL	TV	4.7	4.5	4.7
4	Texas	Radio	4.5	4.5	4.7
5	Milwaukee	Radio	4.9	3.4	4.6
6	Washington	Radio	4.3	4.3	4.5
7	Philadelphia	Radio	4.6	3.7	4.5
8	Chicago NL	TV	4.1	4.4	4.4
9	Detroit	Radio	4.2	4.1	4.3
10	Los Angeles NL	Radio	4.2	3.9	4.2
11	Oakland	Radio	3.8	3.7	4.1
12	Cleveland	Radio	4.1	3.4	4.0
13	Tampa Bay	Radio	3.9	4.0	4.0
14	Toronto	Radio	3.9	3.5	3.9
15	Baltimore	TV	3.9	3.5	3.9
16	Boston	Radio	3.8	3.4	3.9
17	Arizona	Radio	3.6	3.7	3.9
18	Atlanta	Radio	3.8	3.2	3.8
19	St. Louis	Radio	3.9	3.1	3.7
20	Seattle	Radio	3.7	3.4	3.7
21	San Diego	Radio	3.8	3.6	3.7
22	Houston	Radio	3.4	3.5	3.6
23	Los Angeles AL	TV	3.7	3.2	3.6
24	Kansas City	Radio	3.5	3.4	3.5
25	Pittsburgh	Radio	3.7	3.1	3.5
26	Miami	Radio	3.4	3.3	3.4
27	Minnesota	Radio	3.2	3.2	3.3
28	Colorado	Radio	3.2	3.0	3.2
29	Chicago AL (Home)	TV	3.0	2.9	2.9
30	Cincinnati	Radio	3.1	2.7	2.8
31	New York AL	TV	2.8	2.9	2.8
32	Chicago AL	Radio	2.4	2.3	2.4