Best teams over the past 5 years...

[Knufire]

Originally Posted by tindleroot

Ahh, I thought this data was for all years, not just the past 5. It makes more sense now why 67 didn't make the list (If it was every year, they would probably be on top).

Jim Zondag has a sheet similar to this thread that ranks teams based on championship elimination finishes for the past 15 years. There's an adjustible depreciation factor in order to weight how much time matters.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3133

With the standard depreciating factor of 66.67%:
1678 140
1114 139
118 123
987 119
67 112
148 112
469 108
254 107
2056 95
33 92


With a depreciating factor of 100% (no depreciation):
67 577
254 516
469 509
1114 453
217 435
233 425
33 420
987 374
148 344
330 318