The Seattle Seahawks came within 1-yard of repeating as Super Bowl Champions in February, but they don’t rank among the very top of the NFL in terms of bang for the buck.
That’s according to NerdWallet, which ranked all NFL, MLB and NBA franchises by payroll, then crunched the numbers to figure out the wisest-spending teams in sports since 2000.
Here’s the methodology, according to NerdWallet’s Sreekar Jasthi:
In our analysis, we counted regular season victories over the past 15 years and factored in whether the team had won any championships to create an “adjusted wins” total for each franchise.