Good Work gives oil companies the baseball-stat treatment

A spoof Company Reference database joins a Michael Lewis lunch in the channel's three-upload week.

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the statistically-best oil company

Standard Oil has the championships, but did it play in a weak era? Good Work's Dan Toomey applies the familiar logic of sports arguments to an unlikely subject in "the statistically-best oil company," the week's most-watched new upload, with roughly half a million views.

This is a comedy sketch, not an investment ranking. Toomey browses a mock website called Company Reference, comparing corporate records as though he were settling a baseball debate. The abbreviations change meaning from company to company, and Standard Oil's historical dominance gets the same skeptical treatment a sports fan might give a champion from long before their time.

Viewers extend the joke with references to sabermetrics, running the bases and the supposedly indispensable eye test. Others pick out the Company Reference name itself, a neat imitation of the databases that can turn a casual sports question into an afternoon of research.

The other uploads take different routes through Good Work's business world: "a definitive ranking of zips" and "Power lunch with Michael Lewis." Lewis, the author of Moneyball and The Big Short, makes a particularly apt guest in a week when corporate analysis borrows sports statistics.

Subscribers were unchanged over the week, while today's views are running at a little over half the channel's usual daily level. Among nearby business channels, CNBC Make It is enjoying above-usual daily viewing; Forbes and Humphrey Yang are having slower days.

Good Work's busiest video right now is neither the oil-company sketch nor the lunch. "who is the secret investment banker?", posted earlier in October, continues to draw the largest daily audience, extending the channel's recurring fascination with what finance people actually do.

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The videos drawing views on Good Work right now

a definitive ranking of zips284,236 views · 2026-10-15 Power lunch with Michael Lewis96,497 views · 2026-10-13 who is the secret investment banker?1,652,378 views

The numbers

Here is Good Work's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

The Iced Coffee Hour

11,161,536

Good Work

3,255,876

Forbes

3,110,491

CNBC Make It

2,483,246

Patrick Boyle

2,363,559

Humphrey Yang

2,192,225

Company Man

436,526

CNBC International

340,502

Sean Pan

38,358

subscribers

1,700,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

404,949,164

views per day

289,442

typical day: 546,480

first-day views of each video posted this week

the statistically-best oil company

326,531

a definitive ranking of zips

188,163

Power lunch with Michael Lewis

55,874

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Forbes

2,200,000

Humphrey Yang

2,090,000

CNBC Make It

2,010,000

Company Man

1,800,000

Good Work

1,700,000

The Iced Coffee Hour

1,660,000

Sean Pan

1,480,000

CNBC International

1,450,000

Patrick Boyle

1,360,000

As of October 20, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.