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Originally posted by jay71
LOL, baseball more than any other profesional sporthas HUGE problems. I do live in Philly and LOVE the fact that we can sign Lee, but unfortunatly half the teams are already eliminated from the playoffs. Until MLB puts some sort of cap into its league it will always be the same 6-10 teams in the WS


Since 2000:

World Series participants:
Texas, San Francisco, New York Yankees, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Boston, Colorado, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago White Sox, Houston, Florida, Anaheim, Arizona, New York Mets (15 teams = 1/2 of all franchises in 10 years)

SuperBowl participants:
New Orleans, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Arizona, New York Giants, New England, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Carolina, Oakland, Tampa Bay, St. Louis, Baltimore (14 teams = 14/32 of the league in 10 years - less than MLB)

NBA Finals participants:
Los Angeles, Boston, Orlando, San Antonio, Cleveland, Miami, Dallas, Detroit, New Jersey, Philadelphia (10 - in the league where the highest percentage of teams make the playoffs?)

MLB = revenue sharing and luxury tax
NFL = hard cap
NBA = soft cap

Which league does the best job of getting different teams to the championship round?

That stat surprises me about football to baseball. NBA? I don't know what this is except that they sometimes play where the flyers play.

Just curious, what is the NHL breakdown?

I do believe that the small market teams in MLB that made the series actually spent money that particular season

Ex the diamondbacks had schilling and Randy Johnson

Ex. The rangers last season bought vlad, cliff lee and bengi Molina

Ex the marlins grabbed Kevin brown fir 106 million then traded him
the next season

NHL:

Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Anaheim, Ottawa, Carolina, Edmonton, Tampa Bay, Calgary, New Jersey, Colorado, Dallas (that includes 99-00 since there was a strike taking out one season) - 13

Originally posted by Chocoburgers
NHL:

Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Anaheim, Ottawa, Carolina, Edmonton, Tampa Bay, Calgary, New Jersey, Colorado, Dallas (that includes 99-00 since there was a strike taking out one season) - 13

Thank you....

still think baseball playoff teams will be

NL
Phillies Philly, big market
Cardinals St. Louis Big market
Giants SF Big market
Rockies Denver Big Market

AL
Yankees NY Big Market
Red Sox Boston Big market
White Sox Chicago Big market
Rangers small

just my opinion

Originally posted by jay71
Thank you....

still think baseball playoff teams will be

NL
Phillies Philly, big market
Cardinals St. Louis Big market
Giants SF Big market
Rockies Denver Big Market

AL
Yankees NY Big Market
Red Sox Boston Big market
White Sox Chicago Big market
Rangers small

just my opinion

Rangers play in a top five market, btw

the 2003 World Champion Florida Marlins had a payroll of just over 49 million, the Yankees, who they beat in the world series had a payroll of 153 million dollars.