The Effect of Parity on Our Expectations

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Originally Posted by Huddle

If the NFL brass had its way, every team would finish 8-8. And, when you think about it, the difference between 6-10 and 10-6 is only a two-game swing from 8-8. Every team that finished in this range this past season, could easily swing in the opposite direction in 2006. As a sign of this trend, in recent years, most of the losers of the Super Bowl haven't make it back to the playoffs the following season.

Huddle, getting every team to finish at .500 isn't the NFL's goal in pushing parity.

The goal is to avoid the having a league filled with a group of teams that are perennial losers and a group that is consistantly competitive -- like you have in baseball. A sport that is a shell of what it used to be.

The Bengals of all people made the playoffs last year. One of the beautiful parts of the game is the "any given Sunday" aspect.