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Different sports last four percentage.

  • 20-01-2010 12:19am
    #1
    JeanClaude
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    Taking the semi-finalists, or last 4(as the Yanks like to say), in the last 10 seasons of different sports I calculated how many different teams appeared in the last 4 of each sport at least once.Thought it would be an interesting way of measuring competitvieness in the different sports.Not very scientific i know but some interesting results all the same.

    Here are the results. Picked Champions League (ditto Heineken Cup) as apposed to EPL or La Liga etc. as there is 32 teams in the group stages, which is exactly what is in American Football and only 2 more than the Basketball, Baseball and Ice Hockey (30 teams) H.C 24 teams in group stages.

    Champions League - 18/40 = 45%

    American Football - 21/40 = 52.5%

    Baseball - 21/40 =52.5%

    Basketball - 19/40 = 47.5%

    *Ice Hockey - 21/36 = 58.3%

    **G.A.A. - 15/40 = 37.5%

    Rugby - 16/40 = 40.0%

    *Due to 2005 “lockout” only 9 seasons played.

    ** taking FINALISTS from All Ireland Hurling and Football finals, dual counties (Cork and Galway) were counted seperately in each sport.

    My own conclusion is that the American sports seem to have a better “turnover” of teams reaching the last 4, which interestingly they also have the same teams each year as apposed to different teams qualifing for the group stages of CL and HC (alot more than 32 different teams have played in the C.L. and H.C. over the 10 seasons). Biggest surprise for me is that the Heineken Cup has a smaller “turnover” than the Champions League, genuinely thought it would be the other way around.

    Thoughts, opinions, criticisms...:D :p


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  • #2
    Pherekydes
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    JeanClaude wrote: »
    American Football - 21/40 = 52.5%

    How can there be 40 different teams? Surely the calculation is 21/32?

    The NFC has had 9 different winners in the last 10 years. And it has had 12 of its 16 teams contest championship games in the last decade.

    The AFC has had 5 different winners in the last decade, and 9 of its 16 teams have contested championship deciders.

    The Champions League has had 7 different winners and 13 different teams playing in their final over the last decade, but out of how many different possible teams?

    The effect is far more pronounced in the Premiership. In the last 10 editions, only 7 different teams have finished in the top four! The reasons are clear: the wealth in concentrated in the hands of a few clubs.


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