Wager Mage
Wager Mage
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The NFL — another sport praised for parity — has only one more champion over the past ten seasons than MLB or the NBA. Only the National Hockey League can truly claim the mantle of parity, at least when it comes to champions — the league has produced nine winners over the past ten seasons it has played.
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Read More »For all the talk of parity in Major League Baseball, the sport is no different from the NBA when it comes to winning the title. At the conclusion of this year’s Red Sox/Cardinals World Series, six Major League Baseball franchises will have won the World Series over the past ten seasons — matching the number of NBA teams that have won the NBA Finals over the same span. The NFL — another sport praised for parity — has only one more champion over the past ten seasons than MLB or the NBA. Only the National Hockey League can truly claim the mantle of parity, at least when it comes to champions — the league has produced nine winners over the past ten seasons it has played. A far greater percentage of big market teams have won the title in baseball than in any other sport over the past ten seasons. Five of the six MLB champions have hailed from a top ten TV market — New York (#1), Chicago (#3), Philadelphia (#4), the Bay Area (#6) and Boston (#7). By contrast, only three of six NBA champions hailed from top ten markets over that span (Los Angeles, Dallas and Boston), and only two Super Bowl champions have played in a top ten market (New York and Boston). The NHL has also had five big market champions (New York, Los Angeles — once each for the Kings and Ducks — Chicago, and Boston). Of course, as the NHL had more champions overall, the percentage of big market teams was lower. Of course, MLB looks a lot better when you go back further. Over the past 20 seasons, MLB has had 11 champions, compared to just seven for the NBA, 12 for the NFL, and 13 for the NHL. One interpretation is that Major League Baseball has become more like the NBA over the past decade — with championships concentrated among just a few teams.
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Read More »French researchers have found that athletes' peak performance actually follows a rigid physiological law. Generally, most enter their athletic prime somewhere between 20 and 30, before undergoing an "irreversible" decline.
Athletic performance obviously decreases as people get older and their bodies wear down physically, but new data compiled by French researchers sheds new light on exactly when these declines might start showing up, at least in some sporting disciplines. The careers of more than 1,150 swimmers and track-and-field athletes, as well as the accomplishments of nearly a hundred chess grandmasters, were scrutinized based on the event they were participating in, as well as their age and how old they were when they established any world records. In all, more than 11,200 performances among these athletes made it into the data set, and the results confirm that there reaches an age – a physiological tipping point, if you will – when athletes start to experience an irreversible downturn in their abilities. Generally speaking, athletes start to see physical declines at age 26, give or take. (This would seem in line with the long-standing notion in baseball that players tend to hit their peak anywhere from ages 27 to 30.) For swimmers, the news is more sobering, as the mean peak age is 21. For chess grandmasters, participating in an activity that relies more than mental acuity and sharpness rather than brute, acquired physicality, the peak age is closer to 31.4. For setting world records in a given athletic discipline, the mean age is 26.1, so all you sports-minded thirty-somethings hoping to still see your name published in the Guinness Book may have already missed your mark. Of course, if Olympic champion Dara Torres taught us anything back at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, it's that age is sometimes just a number. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
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