What is parity?

Question

What is parity in the NFL?

I mean, does it involve and actual rules? How does it change prevent the old dynasty teams? I know they are prevented by free agency and salary caps, but does some parity rule add anything?

Answer 1

There is no "parity rule" per se. The salary cap and rules, the rules involving free agents, and the scheduling rules operate to ensure that teams have the opportunity to become contenders in a short space of time. An example of this is the Bengals which went from laughingstocks to better than respectable in 2-3 years.

This does not mean that the improvement of bad teams is automatic by any means. There is a premium placed on front office competence, and that is the real difference between teams.

The Lions, Browns, Cardinals, Raiders all have bad management, which is why they are consistently poor teams. The Bengals show what happens when you get a competent manager involved.

Answer 2

Parity is actually a social movement. It means that there is not one dominant class and that everyone has a chance at free competition. The idea of parity actually came to be during the industrial revolution and meant that every owner had a fair chance at making a living. In the NFL it means that from year to year any team has the chance to be succesful. Free agency and the draft allow teams who were at the bottom of the barrel one year can turn around and be at the top the next if they play their cards right. Basically it means that the old school dynsatys are harder to come by then they were before.

Answer 3

The Salary cap in the NFL baically was put in place to level the playing field between the big market teams and the smaller market teams.The teams share certain revenue. As a result the teams are allocated a dollar amount which is the limit on what they can spend on player salaries.If the team is over the salary cap they need to cut players from their teams or renogitiate their contracts. Most of the time players are cut to get under the cap which results in player movement from team to team.

In a nutshell the salary cap prevents big market teams from overpaying for top notch talent which makes it a level playing field with small market teams. This prevents a situation like in Baseball where the Yankees overpay and take up all the talent which makes it harder for the smaller market teams.It basically gives small market teams a chance to succeed in the NFL.

Parity is basically the fact tha tbecasue of the salary cap any team can beat anyone and there is not that much of a dropoff from the best teams and the worst teams.

Answer 4

im gonna give u the short version. Parity basically means there is no dominant team, that everyone seems to be around the same skill level and there is no distinct powerhouse. it also means even if a team has a bad record, they are still capable of winning if their is a lot of parity

Answer 5

What you see every week in the NFL. Everyone is so equal with the salary caps and all. Unlike baseball where the Yankees can spend 2,3,or4 times as much as everyone else even though baseball too , has a so called salary cap.

Answer 6

No specific rules as far as FORCING it. The salary cap, and players that want too much money are what really are the biggest reasons. Free agency alone wasn't helping actually.

Answer 7

It means all the teams are of the same athletic ability.

Answer 8

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