What were the most exciting games in history? Part 1

I had bases.chat, created by SABR member Ted Ingram, add up the absolute value of all Win Probability Added events in every game that have play-by-play data. Then I had it list the top 25. This is in the table below. 

All of these games were extra inning (and mostly high scoring) so I will also show the table it came up with for 9 inning games. And all of these games are regular season games so I will do a Part 2 blog post for post-season games.

I also plan to do a Part 3 that has a list of games with the most WPA events of 0.25 or higher (in absolute value).

Again, this first table is regular season games. Excitement is just the sum of all the WPA events. The number in parentheses is how many innings the game went. If you click on the date you will go to the Baseball Reference box score for the game.

Rank	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Excitement
1	7/10/1932	Athletics	18–17	Indians	14.668 (18)
2	5/8/1984	Brewers	6–7	White Sox	14.201 (25)
3	5/21/1977	Padres	11–8	Expos	12.508 (21)
4	6/24/1962	Yankees	9–7	Tigers	11.860 (22)
5	7/4/1985	Mets	16–13	Braves	11.810 (19)
6	9/11/1974	Cardinals	4–3	Mets	11.739 (25)
7	5/12/1972	Brewers	4–3	Twins	11.486 (22)
8	7/7/1922	Giants	9–8	Pirates	11.245 (18)
9	7/1/1934	Cardinals	8–6	Reds	11.193 (18)
10	6/17/1967	Athletics	6–5	Tigers	11.13 (19)
11	6/27/1939	Dodgers	2–2	Bees	11.084 (23)
12	5/25/2008	Reds	9–12	Padres	11.029 (18)
13	6/1/1919	Phillies	10–9	Robins	10.879 (18)
14	6/3/1989	Dodgers	4–5	Astros	10.833 (22)
15	4/30/1919	Robins	9–9	Phillies	10.786 (20)
16	7/5/1940	Dodgers	6–2	Bees	11.741(20)
17	8/22/1917	Pirates	5–6	Robins	10.706 (22)
18	8/31/1993	Indians	4–5	Twins	10.704 (22)
19	4/16/1967	Red Sox	6–7	Yankees	10.636 (18)
20	5/26/1973	Indians	3–6	White Sox	10.612 (21)
21	9/3/1981	Mariners	8–7	Red Sox	10.603 (20)
22	9/7/1951	Cubs	6–7	Reds	10.578 (18)
23	5/24/1973	Mets	7–3	Dodgers	10.471 (19)
24	7/19/1924	Browns	10–9	Senators	10.469 (16)
25	4/13/1982	Mariners	3–4	Angels	10.451 (20)

The first game listed is an 18 inning game. So that doubles the number of events to add up compared to a 9 inning game, which helps give it a high score (but if we divide 14.668 by 2 we get 7.334 and that would be the 2nd highest if it were a 9 inning game as the next table will show). Also, bases.chat might not use the same win expectancy tables that BB Ref uses so the total WPAs might be different than what you might get if you added this up yourself. It said that "WPA computed from Retrosheet play-by-play data using Tom Tango's win expectancy framework."

Here are the top 9 inning games.

Rank	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Excitement
1	6/30/1996	Dodgers	15–16	Rockies	8.637
2	6/24/2016	Diamondbacks	10–9	Rockies	7.323
3	9/8/1998	Marlins	10–11	Rockies	7.262
4	7/7/1930	Giants	13–12	Phillies	7.228
5	8/31/1967	Orioles	9–10	Twins	7.069
6	8/22/1933	Senators	8–10	Tigers	7.056
7	9/25/1929	Robins	9–10	Phillies	7.013
8	7/25/1959	Yankees	9–8	Tigers	6.935
9	5/14/2000	Cubs	15–16	Expos	6.902
10	5/10/1922	Tigers	10–9	Red Sox	6.825