The 1916 Oakland Athletics season saw the A’s finish eighth in the American League with a record of 36 wins and 117 loses, enough for eighth place overall.
The 1916 squad is sometimes referred to as the poorest team in the history of the American League, and its.235 winning % is still the lowest ever recorded by a contemporary (post-1900) major-league team.

1916 Season standings

American League       W     L     Pct.   GB    Home      Road

Boston Red Sox                   91       63   0.591    —        49–28      42–35
Chicago White Sox              89       65   0.578    2          49–28      40–37

Detroit Tigers                       87       67   0.565    4          49–28      38–39

New York Yankees                80       74    0.519   11        46–31      34–43

St. Louis Browns                   79        75    0.513  12        45–32      34–43

Cleveland Indians                 77        77     0.500  14       44–33     33–44

Washington Senators           76        77     0.497  14½     49–28     27–49

Philadelphia Athletics           36       117    0.235   54½    23–53    13–64

The A’s, one of the original eight teams in the AL, were founded in 1901 and are headquartered in Philadelphia. Connie Mack was the A’s manager during the first 50 years of the team’s history, from the team’s inception until 1950.

During its first seven seasons, the Oakland A’s won AL championships in 1902 and 1905, the latter of which earned the team its first World Series trip, which they lost to the New York Giants in a five-game series in 1907.

Before the newly established Federal League compelled Mack to sell off his key players to other clubs in order to keep the franchise viable, the 1913 and 1914 core made it to two more World Series.

First, the A’s reign of terror from 1915 to 1921 was quickly followed by a seven-year run of last-place results (including a 117-loss season in 1916).