(6) Superteams: Does Baseball Have a Parity Problem?

For the second straight year, it looks as though three Major League teams may win 100 games – something that has happened in consecutive years only once before. The conventional wisdom is that we’re in an era of superteams, and that this might be a long-term problem for baseball. But does baseball actually have a parity problem? Pesach Wolicki and Scott Kahn compare MLB with the NFL, the NBA, and the NHL to see which has the most parity, and to determine once and for all if there’s a need to address this pressing issue – or whether things are actually fine the way they are.