However many games a team is over break/even, they would have to double that number to be that many games over .500. To appreciate how difficult and how rare it is for any team to be 20, 30 or even 40 games over .500, you must consider these facts. In the history of MLB since 1900, only about 10 teams have ever finished a season 40 over break/even and 20 over .500. In all those 117 years only one team has ever completed a season 40 over .500 and 80 over break/even. None of those great Yankee teams achieved that record, it was the 1906 Chicago Cubs with a record of 116-36.