re: What professional franchise has the worst 5 year outlook from today?

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You can't seriously be arguing that it's easier to go from a doormat to into the playoffs in the NBA.

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Took me a while to get back to this and I decided to check to see if you had a point. My contention is based on the fact that a much higher percentage of teams make the playoffs in the NBA and replacing a single player on a team replaces 20% of the teams starters vs 1 player equals 4.5% of starters in football.

I decided I would us playoff droughts as my metric for comparison. Using that mastic, it turns out the facts do support my argument.

NBA teams with 6 or more year current droughts - 3

Minnesota Timberwolves - 12 years last appearance - 2004
Sacramento Kings - 10 years last appearance - 2006
Phoenix Suns - 6 years last appearance - 2010

NFL teams with 6 or more year droughts -

Buffalo Bills - 17 years last appearance - 1999
Cleveland Browns - - 14 years last appearance - 2002
Los Angeles Rams - 12 years last appearance - 2004
Jacksonville Jaguars - 9 years last appearance - 2007
Tampa Bay Buccaneers - 9 years last appearance - 2007
Tennessee Titans - 8 years last appearance - 2008
New York Jets - 6 years last appearance - 2010
Chicago Bears - 6 years last appearance - 2010

Also, the longest NBA playoff drought was 15 years by the Clippers which is shorter than the longest NFL current drought, much less than the historically long drought of 25 years by the Redskins and Cardinals.

If you have some better metric to use, please present it for consideration.