Ranking is based on overall win percentage (closest to .500), consistency (standard deviation) of being average year to year and % of seasons with with a win percentage between 0.45 – 0.55.
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Ranking is based on overall win percentage (closest to .500), consistency (standard deviation) of being average year to year and % of seasons with with a win percentage between 0.45 – 0.55.
Posted by No-Comfortable-9418
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Chargers… yup that tracks
As a Vikings fan, we’re even mediocre at being mediocre.
Hell yeah. Finally my Chargers are #1 in something
Bucs have a Super Bowl during that time.
I really enjoy the second chart showing how the Browns are as exceptionally bad as the Patriots are exceptionally good.
Hate something the Browns win at! Not being the most mediocre! (…at what cost though)
As a Cardinals fan, consistently mediocre is a step up from consistently trash.
The Patriots and Browns are in a league of their own
As a Bears fan….. I don’t understand why we aren’t here? Or are we that bad that we don’t even classify for mediocre and are just plain terrible? Hehehe
3 seasons straight of 8-8 is a hell of a drug.
God I hate being a browns fan.
No Steelers as number one invalidates everything
Washington was straight garbage from 2000-2023, not mediocre. This seems misleading to me.
My dad grew up a Vikings fan and moved to Arizona to spend the rest of his life as a cardinals fan too. Needless to say I don’t think he was ever very happy as a fan.
The 49ers, meanwhile, vacillate between Super Bowl contenders and absolute garbage with no in-betweens.
The Browns have really distanced themselves from the competition, literally. They are further away from the next closest team in win % than any other team, though not quite enough to be a statistical outlier.
Not sure the first two graphs are aligned. I would have expected the first graph to just be a radial score of the second graph centered around 50% win percentage and 0 std dev, meaning the dolphins and bills would be 1 & 2. Chargers std dev is much higher, so why are they the most consistently mediocre?
The Josh Allen era made the Bills go from straight ass to mediocre.
A couple more seasons and he brings the franchise above .500 all time as well.
Forbes says that Cowboys is worth like $13 billion. The most valuable team in the NFL. Crazy shit.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinteitelbaum/2025/08/28/the-nfls-most-valuable-teams-2025/
As a saints fan, I’ve been diligently preparing my “Aint’s” paper bag to wear over my head. It’s tradition at this point.
Is Texans on plot 3 supposed to be the cowboys? I see cowboys on every other plot.
Why does the chart flip between Texans and Cowboys?
Can you do this with MLB too?
I’d like to see this on a shorter time frame, like maybe the last 10-15 years. I feel like there have been dramatic changes to the game recently that have made the QB position way more important and some of that gets lost by the time frame.
Well the Jets would be less than mediocre and the Patriots would be better than mediocre?
The first chart is pretty useless tbh. There’s no explanation of what mediocrity score means and the distance between bars is so low, that it looks like barely any difference between them. We also have no comparison to a non mediocre team; like is there a big difference between the least mediocre and most mediocre?
The second chart is more useful but I would personally say the most mediocre team (based on that chart) are the dolphins. They are close to .50 and they have the lowest standard deviation, meaning they are consistently very close to .50, even season to season. Whereas some of the other mediocre teams have higher variance because they have had winning seasons, which seems less mediocre to me.
As a born and bred lions fan, I looked at the first slide and was shocked we weren’t on there. Even with our success the last couple of seasons… in still mostly used to being hurt
Steelers with no deviation. That one hits hard.
somehow this feels like the worst sports burn ever
Browns being the statistical outlier is painful.
Patriots just LOL’ing their way out in front of everyone as usual.
🙋🏻♂️Cowboys “fan”. Wish I wasn’t. The good thing about 30 years of mediocrity is if any fans of a rival talk shit about em I can just agree with em and it shuts it down. Cant hurt me bro. Im dead inside.
So the Browns are at least good at being bad? 🤷♂️
Jets couldn’t even win this
As someone who watches a lot of football and knows these teams very well, the data just doesn’t seem equal to these teams being the “most mediocre”. You have the Broncos and Saints who have won a Super Bowl in this timeframe as well as the Bengals and Cardinals who went to the Super Bowl.
The Commanders have hardly been a playoff team in this timeframe and just got to the NFCCG for the first time in over 30 years.
I would say that the only teams this properly fits would be the Chargers, Cowboys, Vikings, and maybe the Bengals.
It’s hard to call the Broncos mediocre in this timeframe when they have gone to 2 Super Bowls, won 1 Super Bowl, and had an 8 year playoff drought all in the same timeframe. That’s the opposite of consistently mediocre, that’s polar opposite.
Nope. Most of these are good sometimes bad others. Mediocre all the time is way more of a Steelers thing than the Bengals who were awful for ages then had a few good seasons a decade apart.