ESPN the Magazine released the 2015 Ultimate Standings this week, which is basically the conglomerate’s comprehensive ranking of every professional franchise from the four major sports.
First of all, awesome. I/you/we/North Americans love any sort of power rankings. This went much further than the normal rankings of breakfast cereals and Nintendo 64 games, though. They called upon consulting firms, research companies and thousands of fan surveys to provide eight statistical categories from “stadium experience” to “ownership”. After a weighted average of all criteria, each team found its place on the scale. How did the Nuggets fare?