Wednesday, January 2, 2019

2018 NFL Competitive Balance

With the end of the NFL regular season, let's take a look at how competitive the NFL was this past season.  I grabbed the NFL standings data from profootballreference, and then calculated the Noll-Scully measure of competitive balance.  For those interested, here is a step-by-step guide to calculating the Noll-Scully Competitive Balance measure.

For this past season the Noll-Scully measure of competitive balance for the entire league was 1.445, and for the AFC the Noll-Scully was 1.364 and the NFC the Noll-Scully was 1.569.

Recent historical perspective on competitive balance in the NFL.

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