(not including ties, which were not counted towards the standings) at the end of the season was declared the champion; the only tiebreaker was that in the event of a tie if two teams played twice in a season, the result of the second game determined the title (the source of the 1921...
From 2003-2016, ESPN ran a series called Ultimate Standings (insert hyperlink ESPN The Magazine’s 2016 Ultimate Standings). They surveyed fans across all four major North American sports to come up with a formula for determining which teams reward their fans the most. The responses were ...
Here is the 1950 NFL final standings {1950 NFL(pro-football-reference.com}. So, in 1950, in the 13-team NFL, the top 11 of the top 12 most-populous cities in America had NFL franchises (Boston did not have an NFL team in 1950, but had failed in the past to support 3 different ...
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turned the league upside down and made analysis increasingly difficult. Teams like the Chargers, Ravens and Saints (just to name a few of those heavily impacted) don't get any mercy in the NFL standings, but we've attempted to view these compromised squads in more of a big-picture ...
Tennessee can not pass the ball. The team is setting the forward pass back to the 1940s. The Titans are 31st in passing yards per game at 135. They only pass the ball 28.4 times per game, that's 26th in the league. Their 5.5 yards per pass attempt is 29th. Going deeper into analy...
Florida had qualified for the playoffs. Worse, Marlins owner Wayne Huizenga (citing financial reasons, of course) began dissembling his team of stars even before the champagne stains had been removed from the clubhouse carpet. Predictably, the Marlins soon fell to the bottom of the standings. ...
can be seen at the lower-right of the map. Home helmets and jerseys are shown alongside the standings. There also is a small section devoted to 1957 NFL attendance data. At the top-right of the map-page is a section devoted to the 1957 NFL champions, the Detroit Lions (also see the...
Thus, the Chicago victory actually counted more in the standings, giving Chicago the championship. Buffalo sports fans have been known to refer to this, justly or unjustly, as the “Staley Swindle,” and have cited it as the first evidence of a sports curse on the city.”…{end of ...
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