08-10-2021, 09:39 PMnour Wrote: Parity
This feels like it's been a topic in every single one of these threads since we started doing them, but it’s an important topic to continue to discuss! Last offseason saw contract changes, expansion, playoff changes, AND the update scale come into effect to hopefully create a parity situation in the league that we are all happy with, and so far we’ve seen what I believe has been a tremendous success. While we’ve only seen the league’s average Points Percentage jump up from ~0.532 to ~0.553, we’ve seen lots of bubble and middling teams take big steps forward in competing, and we’ve seen plenty of players in the lower TPE tiers become viable contributors at much lower TPE. A lot of these changes will still take time to ripple through the league, but we’re looking forward to monitoring this continually as the seasons go by.

I think you're understating the parity changes a bit, they made a bigger difference than those numbers make it seem. the standard deviation for points percentage dropped from ~0.184 in S59 to ~0.167 in S60. that's huge, the teams are now much closer than before

I'm not saying we're at the right level of parity yet, but just giving some more representative numbers for people to see