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Old 07-14-2010, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Cardus View Post
I know that there are multiple ways to gauge "competitive balance," but consider that baseball has had eight different champions over the last nine or 10 seasons; football about the same; but basketball has had eight champion organizations over the last 32 years. (Good work by the ESPN radio morning guys, though sports fans probably would have arrived at similar numbers for the last eight champions in the three sports without hearing them yesterday morning.)
The crazy thing is that many stats say that more people will follow a dominant team or francshise. More people want to watch a "dynasty" than this competitive balance that is being thrown around.

Isnt that why we want a triple crown winner?
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