It took me a week to get back and read this, but I'm glad I did. First, it made me wish I knew more about last season's Barca women when picking my Dominator of the Year for 2023. I'll add them to my list of team's to pay closer attention to as their season wraps up this spring. And second, the concept of "the decided upon level of parity" is something I'll file away to think about for future champions and their particular league environments.
Last year’s team was so good - and the fact they’re better by the underlying numbers this year is just silly. I’m hoping they end up playing Chelsea in the next round of the UWCL so I can go and watch them!
On the competition structure aspect of things - no one is better at discussing all of the factors which go into it than Twenty First Group, whose work I’ve referenced a lot in the past: https://www.twentyfirstgroup.com/content/thought-leadership/
It took me a week to get back and read this, but I'm glad I did. First, it made me wish I knew more about last season's Barca women when picking my Dominator of the Year for 2023. I'll add them to my list of team's to pay closer attention to as their season wraps up this spring. And second, the concept of "the decided upon level of parity" is something I'll file away to think about for future champions and their particular league environments.
Thanks so much for reading Scott!
Last year’s team was so good - and the fact they’re better by the underlying numbers this year is just silly. I’m hoping they end up playing Chelsea in the next round of the UWCL so I can go and watch them!
On the competition structure aspect of things - no one is better at discussing all of the factors which go into it than Twenty First Group, whose work I’ve referenced a lot in the past: https://www.twentyfirstgroup.com/content/thought-leadership/