| Do the best teams always win in sports?
I don't claim to be a major sports fan. In fact, I generally have no idea what's going on with any of it.
However, it seems to me that there is one thing that is true about pro sports: the team who wins the Championship is not always the best team out of the entire league.
How often is it just random or dumb luck that one team wins and not another? Is it really the best team out of the league?
In the 50s a professor pretty much proved that major league baseball championship wins are random, that you can't tell in seven games who the best team truly is.
Furthermore, look at the NFL. Like MLBA the NFL usually produces "one" of the top teams as the champion but there's always doubt cast on if it's legit.
These two questions have always bothered me.
How can you tell who the best team is in 16 games? That's not a season. I understand that the nature of football won't allow for many more games but the point is that you can't really determine who the best team is in 16 games.
And then you have the playoffs and Superbowl. Again, you can't have tournaments in football. There really needs to be a series of sorts to determine the winner of these contests.
I mean, look at any Superbowl winner and the loser of that championship game. If placed in a best of five or even best of three situation could you say that the outcome would be the same? Not even close. |