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Originally Posted by BMSOTM
sometimes the mostly-random assignment of teams to Championship Divisions
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I just wanted to interject, do we know for certain this is true? I think it's been a long-time assumption that assignment of a Championship division is pseudo-random, but I don't think we know that for certain. I sort of remember Frank going through how they assign rookies to make sure that there's an equal amount in each division, but I haven't heard anything else other than conjecture about team sorting.
There's plenty of statistical analysis to show how unbalanced the divisions were this past year. However, without knowledge of the algorithm used to generate the divisions, we don't know if it was just random chance or a problem with the algorithm itself (or if competitive balance was even a factor within the algorithm in the first place).