Misery Index
because losing breeds misery
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Category: NBA
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The Bulls won 6 NBA Titles in the 1990’s, which was more than any other team in any other North American sports league that decade, and hasn’t been matched by anyone in a 10 year period since. Since then however, they haven’t even come close to another title, having not made the NBA Finals since…
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The Raptors started play in 1995 in Toronto as one of two NBA teams in Canada, but after the Grizzlies moved to Memphis in 2001, they are Canada’s only NBA team. They have one Championship from 2019, but don’t have much success otherwise. They last won the NBA Finals in 2019 (+6) Their so far…
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After a lengthy conversation with my mathematical advisor, it was determined that negative scores are less than ideal. Also there needs to be a way to track fanbase optimism in regards to team improvement or fall-off based on year over year improvement. To those ends, I am tweaking the formula in the following ways. The…
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The Boston Celtics, having won 18 NBA Championships since they were founded in 1946, currently as of this writing have a misery index of -16. They last won a title in ’24, so that’s a 1 season title drought. (+1) They failed to reach the Finals since then for another 1 season drought. (+1) They…
