with the bigs? its no secret that baseball lacks parity, im not a yankee hater, i have no reason to be. but its anti climactic & borring to see a team in it every year just because they outspent everyone else.
what do you think?
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Would You Like To See Baseball Adopt An Nfl Style Salary Cap & Franchise Tags So Small Markets Can Compete?
Posted on March 10, 2011.
I would like to see a cap. Caps DO create parity. Yeah, you can look at the NFL where some teams consistently suck. But it’s because of management and poor drafting, not because the good players are priced out of their market. For the most part, many NFL teams can go from the basement to a playoff team in 2 or 3 years. Whereas in baseball, you got teams like the Pirates with a record breaking number of consecutive losing seasons.
How exactly has the salary cap worked so well in football or basketball?
For football, it was instituted for the 1994 season. Since then , there have been 18 Super Bowls. One team has won 3 of them, and 3 teams have won 2 of them. In other words, half of the 18 Super Bowls since the cap has been introduced have been won by 4 teams which is one-eighth of the league. And how has having a cap helped team like the Lions, who haven’t made the playoffs in this century? Or for that matter, how has it helped the Bills, who also have not made a playoff appearance since 1999? This in a league that qualifies 12 out of 32 teams for the playoffs – a team should conceivably have better than a 1 out of 3 chance of making the playoffs.
About the NBA – let’s look go back a little further, this time to when they instituted their salary cap, the 1984-85 season. So now we are looking at 25 seasons (not counting this one yet). You know how many teams have won at least one NBA championship in the last 25 years? 7 of them. And 14 of those titles were won by only 2 teams – the Lakers (8) and the Bulls (6). And as you do in football, the NBA has its’ share of teams that are horrible year after year. How about them Clippers? That salary cap helping them win anything? How about the Warriors – one playoff appearance in the last 16 seasons? And this in a league where 16 of the 30 teams (more than HALF) qualify for the playoffs.
Compare it to baseball. 10 different World Series champions since 1994. And 18 teams have won it since the NBA started their cap in 1984. And this in a sport with considerably fewer teams in the playoffs to begin with.
My point is simple – a salary cap does not automatically mean competitive balance, and the lack of a cap does not necessarily mean a lack of that competitiveness.
Absolutely. It’s a terrific idea, and the sooner the better.