OT: Interactive map of every championship in the history of MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL
From Slate - Thought it postworthy during the NBA and NHL finals. Lots of sorting and filtering options. Too bad there's not one for college sports:
would look hilariously different if their lineup was: Jets, Rangers, Mets and Knicks. Any combination not including the Yankees would work, though.
People say that the rust belt and Northeast are dead. However, from this map, those regions have been dominating professional sports for a centruty now. At least we have this claim to hold onto.
Who says the norheast is dead? DC philly new york and boston are all areas increasing population and doing relatively well economically. The rust belt on the other hand? yeah, no arguments from me on that one
I fucking hate New York.
Really cool.
- Detroit is one of four cities to win a championship in all four major sports.
- Montreal has more Stanley Cup wins than Detoit has championships in all sports. In fact, they have more Stanley Cup wins than ANY city has chamionships, aside from Boston and NY.
Championships:
NY - 54
Boston - 34
Montreal - 26
Chicago - 26
Detroit - 22
LA - 21
Philly - 17
Toronto - 15
Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
Just another reminder how much the last 50 years have sucked in Cleveland. Sigh I hope Michigan comes through soon.
I am in the same boat, just not as long. I'm 31 and have lived in the Greater Cleveland area my entire life.
One interesting feature is that if you click on the dot fot a city, a sidebar will appear giving percentages of championships won in a given sport in that city, so for example, 65% of the championships won by a New York team were in baseball, and 50% of Detroit's have been in hockey. If you click on Raleigh, NC, 100% of their one championship was the Hurricanes' magical 2005-2006 season.
Interesting data really. Thanks for sharing it!
Any hockey fans/historians out there know why the PCHA or WCHL are included? Were they effectively NHL equivalents at one point?
The Stanley Cup isn't an NHL trophy. Back in the day, those teams won Cups without playing in the NHL.
It's only since 1947 that the Stanley Cup is (by official agreement) exclusively awarded to the NHL playoff champion, although no non-NHL team had won it since 1926.
Thanks...it was interesting to see Seattle with a hockey title.
with all the Z's!!
Don't let Dave Brandon see these.
Victoria in 1925; Vancouver in 1915!!
Victoria in 1925; Vancouver in 1915!!
Double post 3 hours later?
Next step, college sports.
Football
M BBall
W BBall?
Baseball?
Hockey?
Detroit is great sports city. Also, as a young person, it's interesting that the Lakers first championship was in 1972. It's weird to think for people 50 and older, the Lakers went from zero titles as a child to 11 now and being considered a historically great franchise. The NBA is really young compared to the other leauges. Edit: Forgot the Lakers played in Minnesota before Los Angeles. So they have 16 titles.