Wednesday, October 7, 2015

2015 MLB Competitive Balance

With the end of the Major League Baseball season, I have calculated the Noll-Scully measure of competitive balance and find that MLB was 1.612 for the 2015 season.  Below is a chart of the Noll-Scully measure of competitive balance since 1982.  For the entire time period the average Noll-Scully measure of competitive balance is 1.697, slightly more competitive than the average of 1.700 from 1982 to 2014.   So for this time period, the 2015 MLB season was more competitive than the average since 1982.



If you are interested in doing this on your own, here is a step-by-step guide to calculate the Noll-Scully measure of competitive balance using Microsoft Excel.

2 comments:

  1. A beautiful week with many achievements to you!

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  2. When will you recognize that Noll-Scully simply doesn't work. It says NFL and MLB have similar levels of competitive balance. They do not. See: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/on-any-given-sunday-nfl-favorites-win-and-underdogs-lose/.

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