TheGodInAGreyHoodie

For the last complete season in the

NFL 2010
The best team (NEP) had a W-L% of .875 the worst team had .125 (Carolina) : difference .650

MLB 2010
Best (Philly) .630 -- worst .346 (Houston): difference .284

NBA 10-11
Best (Bulls) .756 -- worst .207 (Minn) difference .549

NHL 10-11 (they don't do W-L % persay, but

Best was Van at 54-19 117 points which could be considered a W-L of .740
Worst Edmon 25-45 62 points which could be considered .357
difference .383

Seems like baseball than hockey have the most parity....with Basketball and Football having the least.

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Observer

Did you just claim to come to a statistical conclusion by cherry-picking only the extreme values of the data set?

RIpats88

I think theres parity in the NFL in the fact that your team can be a doormat one year and in a couple years be a playoff team.

look at the Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49r's, Bengals.....I wouldve laughed if anyone told me those teams would be good this year and the Eagles would be horrid

Ron Sellers

When I think of the parity in the NFL (and the league's desire for parity) I think of a few things. First, rules being set up to put teams on an equal playing field: a hard salary cap, true free agency, and the draft in inverse order of standings. These things all work to make it very difficult for a team to dominate for a long time, and help to make it possible for a bad team to become good relatively quickly.

The second thing I think of is a narrow difference between a good team and a bad team. There's really no such thing as an automatic win, as we see not only multiple upsets every week, but also huge upsets over the course of every season.

Third, the net result is a very large portion of the league's teams being within a game or two of .500. This is smart business for the NFL because it results in about 75% of the league's teams being in contention for a playoff spot for almost the entire season, which keeps interest in those fan bases high.

For fifteen straight years there have been at least five teams make the playoffs that did not make the post season the previous year. I know that there are studies that show baseball has more annual change in champions over the last ten or twenty years than football does, but it does not have the wholesale shift of good to bad that the NFL does in my opinion. Also because draftees can come in and contribute right away as opposed to playing in the minor leagues for several years like most do in MLB and the NHL, an NFL team can turn things around more rapidly.

So overall I would say that yes, there is more parity in the NFL than there is in the three other major pro sports.

vuudu

Developmental Statistics.

ALP

didn't realize we had so many statistics die hards on the forum

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I think he did.

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TheGodInAGreyHoodie

Not really. Being the point is that the very best NFL team has considerable greater superior over the worst NFL team than the very best MLB team has over the worst MLB team.

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RIpats88

I think basketball has to be the worst with parity. before the season starts you can basically name the playoff teams....and the bottom 8playoff teams are usually such a step below the top 8 you know who generally are going to lose in the 1st round.

mvrabel50

tough to compare 16 games to 162 games.