Good to see the MWR proposal generating lotsa discussion (thanks again for making it all constructive so far). Everybody who's spoken up has made good points and I've learned something from all of them.
OK, to set the stage, there are attempts to quantitatively measure the quality of HBD worlds. I'm sure most of you know this but a little review and analysis is relevant to this question of "eliteness".
About every or so I think, HBDer mchales_army produces a ranking of HBD worlds. You can see the latest ranking, done last Spring, at:
https://www.whatifsports.com/forums/Posts.aspx?topicID=509033
He ranks each world by turnover, time between seasons, and a parity score which is a composite of bunch of factors (like # of 100-win and 100-loss teams, # of different teams in playoffs last 4 years, etc.).
You can dig into it but the summary for Hobbs is:
Wait time between seasons: Elite - #5 out of 141
Turnover: Pretty good - #30 out of 141
Parity: Not so good - #66 out of 141
Overall: #45 out of 141 - in the upper reaches of "Above Average"
So what?
Well, I have questions but will leave them for next post. Just wanted to introduce this idea.
Yes, who cares. There's the old sayin. There are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics.
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