That Magic Age (Part 2)

So, now that I found a little free time, I managed to look up the ages of Cy Young Award winners. The Cy Young Award started being given out in 1956. They did not start to give one out to each league until 1967. Similarly to my previous post, I used the same rules. I also did one for history, and one for 1980 onward.














I apologize for the spacing, I am having difficulty getting it to be formatted correctly.


This is an interesting thing shown in these graphs. In the "thru History" graph, the age 27 is far more pronounced than the one showing 1980 onward, which is a contrast to the MVP graph. While 27 is the clear mode in both the graphs, it still is surrounded by the other ages, which appear often as well. The best example of this is the 1980 graph, where age 27 has come up 8 times, and ages 28 and 29 have each come up 7 times.

So what shall I conclude from my little investigation? When a player is around 27 years old, he is more likely to perform better. That does not mean that he can't still perform well past age 27, just that he has a better chance of seeing his best numbers around age 27.