Well, a Seattle area team finally won a championship in one of the four major sports (yes, for some reason the NHL is included). This was not the Seattle area sports championship I really wanted to see (the Mariners), but I guess it will have to do. Anything with a "W" in front of the league doesn't count as a sport to me.
So that got me thinking, what sport seems to be the easiest to win a championship in (at least to me)? Well let's see...
Entry into the Playoffs:
* MLB: 10 of 30 (33.3%) - was 26.6% before last year, used to be much worse before then
* NBA: 16 of 30 teams (53.3%)
* NFL: 12 of 32 teams make the playoffs (37.5%), though the one and done nature alters things
* NHL: 16 of 30 teams (53.3%)
Salary Cap (Competitive Balance)
* MLB: No (but luxury tax at high amounts)
* NBA: Yes
* NFL: Yes
* NHL: Yes
Basically the way I see it, the easiest "sports" to win is probably the NHL or the NBA. The hardest is MLB (with the least teams making the playoffs and a big potential disparity among payrolls).
The Seahawks winning the NFL championship (in what should be regarded as the second biggest Super Bowl blowout of all time, they could have made at least 2 field goals in the 4th quarter) is an accomplishment (obviously). I see this as more so than if the Sonics won (which they did in 1979) or an NHL team won the Stanley Cup. However both of those sports have best of series (a little bit harder) anything could happen in one game.
Yes, I think that an NHL team or an NBA team would win a championship in Seattle before the Mariners (I think the Seattle Predators sound interesting). The deck is pretty well stacked against them (at least two high paying divisional "rivals") and playing in the sport where the least amount of teams make the playoffs. The wildcards are no easy feat either, with high spending teams like the Yankees and Red Sox in the same league (I think the path through the NL is easier than the AL).
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