The NBA Is Hard To Win!

I was watching the NBA playoffs and still getting over my illness from the Mavericks losing in the first round. I got to thinking, it sure seems the same teams win all the time. I wanted to go back and see if this was accurate and from there decided to compare the "Big Four" of North American sports.

I found out a few things to make my argument seem..on face value..not look true. In the last four years the NBA has had four different champions. Seems pretty normal,but it still didn't answer all my two main questions. Are the same teams always winning and how do the four pro sports relate to who wins?

• Some Eye Opening Stats..From the Last 20 Years

NBA...4 teams have won 16 of the twenty titles..Lakers(6)..Bulls(6) and Spurs(4)..Total number of champions..7..so all the other winners have only one championship each..The problem with the NBA is apparent..Strength of schedule is not weighted. Good teams are playing the same schedule as the bad teams..The NBA has a lottery and it is so tilted to avoid a team tanking the end of season that the worst team in the league has never gotten the first pick in the draft..

NHL...The league in the last 20 years has had 4 different multi-championship winners..Detroit(4)New Jersey(4) lead the pack. The league has had 10 different winner in 20 years. Since the lockout year of 04-05 there have been four different winners. They have imposed a hard cap and between the two seem to have increased teams chances of winning.

MLB...The league has had eleven different winners in the last 20 years. The Yankees lead the way with 5 titles. There have been three other multi-winners but all are tied with two. Baseball is the only sport in the USA that has relief from anti-trust practices. They have no salary cap and no weighted schedules. The Yankees lead baseball every year with dollar spending amounts that sometimes are 4 or 5 times higher than some last place teams. Still the Marlins with very low payrolls have won 2 world championships. Baseball is a head scratch-er and I would welcome some advice on this sport.

NFL..The league has had 14 different winners in 20 years. Pete Rozell..past commissioner..was all about parody..Boy did he succeed..Two teams..Dallas/3 and New England/3 are leading the pack. The league has seen a different team win the Super Bowl in the last 6 years. I believe the NFL has figured parody out. They have a draft where the worst teams get the best players and a weighted schedule. In each conference some games are played where the division winners play each other and the last place teams play each other. The league also benefits from teams only playing only one playoff game. The chance to have an upset is greater with all playoff games being game sevens. The Super Bowl is also played at a neutral site.

It is pretty amazing(to me) that the league with the largest roster(NFL) has the most chance for an individual team to win a title. PLUS..The league with the smallest roster(NBA)has the least chance. Just saying!