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Maybe number of champs in the past 10 years? Or 15 to include the whole Patriots dynasty? Or 20 to include the whole Yankees dynasty? Super Bowls, World Serieses and NBA/NHL Finals only.
What does the list of cities ranked by number of recent championships look like? Maybe number of champs in the past 10 years? Or 15 to include the whole Patriots dynasty? Or 20 to include the whole Yankees dynasty? Super Bowls, World Serieses and NBA/NHL Finals only.
I would start by listing them with the numbers of championships won. The teams/cities with the most would be up near the top of the list, maybe with a "#1" and then the city name, "#2" for the next city, and so on. Then followed (near the middle of the list) by the other cities that didn't have as many as the top cities. Near the bottom of the list, you would find the cities that had only 1 or 2 championships. Some cities with no championships, would probably not even need be listed at all or just the cities that had teams, no reason to list every city if they never had a team, such as Minot, ND.
To make a proper list you'd have to figure out a different way to list teams. It's hard to compare Green Bay(1 franchise) with New York(8 franchises), for example.
To make a proper list you'd have to figure out a different way to list teams. It's hard to compare Green Bay(1 franchise) with New York(8 franchises), for example.
You'd get an argument about whether NY has 8 or 9 franchises, with all sorts of permutations. If you don't count the NJ Devils as a NY team, then how do you account for any championships won by the Jets, Giants and Nets (and while we're on that point, do you count the ABA)? Are those championships NYC's while the teams played in the five boroughs and NJ's thereafter? To what city would you attribute the Devils championship? And if you do attribute the Devils to a specific city that's only X miles outside of Manhattan, then do the 4 Islanders championships get credited to Uniontown, Long Island, which is actually farther outside Manhattan than the Devils arena?
Hard to deny how well Boston teams have done in recent memory....
Since 2000 the major teams have done the following:
Patriots - 4 Super Bowl Titles (6 Super Bowl Appearances)
Red Sox - 3 World Series Titles (3 World Series Appearances)
Celtics - 1 NBA Championship (2 Finals Appearances)
Bruins - 1 Stanley Cup (2 Finals Appearances)
Plus in the last 5-6 years each franchise has either won a Championship for the city or has at least represented the city in it's Championship.
Hard to deny how well Boston teams have done in recent memory....
Since 2000 the major teams have done the following:
Patriots - 4 Super Bowl Titles (6 Super Bowl Appearances)
Red Sox - 3 World Series Titles (3 World Series Appearances)
Celtics - 1 NBA Championship (2 Finals Appearances)
Bruins - 1 Stanley Cup (2 Finals Appearances)
Plus in the last 5-6 years each franchise has either won a Championship for the city or has at least represented the city in it's Championship.
In each case, it had been a long time since the earlier championship
Red Sox: 1918 to 2004
Patriots: 1960 to 2001
Celtics: 1986 to 2008
Bruins: 1972 to 2011
It has been an amazing time to be a Boston sports fan....
You'd get an argument about whether NY has 8 or 9 franchises, with all sorts of permutations. If you don't count the NJ Devils as a NY team, then how do you account for any championships won by the Jets, Giants and Nets (and while we're on that point, do you count the ABA)? Are those championships NYC's while the teams played in the five boroughs and NJ's thereafter? To what city would you attribute the Devils championship? And if you do attribute the Devils to a specific city that's only X miles outside of Manhattan, then do the 4 Islanders championships get credited to Uniontown, Long Island, which is actually farther outside Manhattan than the Devils arena?
I'd only separate Baltimore and Washington because they're very different places and lump the others, so New York gets 9 teams. Maybe that's cause I'm a New Yorker and there's a lot of fair weather sports fans here. People that become Devils fans when they might win the Cup but have zero connection to Jersey. I don't know about San Jose and how separated they are from San Francisco but that doesn't matter as they've never won a championship much less one in the last 20 years. Also, the ABA hasn't been around in the last 20 years so it doesn't matter.
To make a proper list you'd have to figure out a different way to list teams. It's hard to compare Green Bay(1 franchise) with New York(8 franchises), for example.
Like "championship average" or "winning efficiency"? - terms that I made up for championships won divided by chances? So Green Bay had 20 chances to win a championship in the last 20 seasons and won 2 times for a championship average of 0.100 and New York had 177 chances to win (because one NHL season was cancelled) succeeding 9 times for a championship average of only 0.051
What's wrong with just straight counting though? Championships per metro area in the last 20 years can be a complementary list to winning efficiency which is how good you do for the amount of teams you have.
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